alloneword Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 27, 2007 Report Share Posted October 27, 2007 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fercho Posted January 3, 2008 Report Share Posted January 3, 2008 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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