Slow Samba Performance

[alloneword]

Hello all.

 

I just installed 2008.0 and it seems OK, but I have an issue with the

Samba network performance on it.

 

I have a WD My Book World Edition (worst name ever). I have it mounted as

an SMB share, this is the line from fstab:

 

//allonewordbook/ALLONEWORD /media/mybook/alloneword smbfs

user,credentials=/etc/samba/

auth.allonewordbook.alloneword,noatime,uid=alloneword,gid=alloneword,exec

0 0

 

It mounts OK, and I have write access, but it is really really slow,

around 1 MB/s to copy stuff to it, and 2MB/s copying stuff of it.

 

But it only happens from my Mandriva 2008 box.

 

It is fast copying between my Vista laptopm and another Linux box I am

using and the My Book World.

 

NFS copying between my two Linux boxes is fast.

 

I am on a gigabit network, and everything is running at gigabit speeds.

 

Any ideas on what is capping the SMB speed on my Mandriva box?

 

Hardware:

AMD x2 5200+

RealTec 8169 Gigabit Network Card

 

Thanks.

[scarecrow]

You may try an alternative samba mounting method, like smbnetfs (which is pretty much a standard currently). However, it's not perfect- it also has, sometimes, performance issues, while say a simple "smb:/" on your konqueror addy bar/ KDE VFS gives you a fast connection to the LAN samba shares.

Edited October 27, 2007 by scarecrow

[fercho]

You may try an alternative samba mounting method, like smbnetfs (which is pretty much a standard currently).

I thought that using cifs was the most current method of connecting to a samba share. Am I wrong?

Thing is that performance is not great.. Same machine, same network, Windows XP is way faster accessing the samba machines...

 

Any pointers on how to improve performace?

 

Fer