[Ilugc] view linux share

[senthilraja P]

Thanks a lot..  i am using Xp to access the linux share.

As you said, samba tuning is what needed..

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Arun Khan <knura at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Friday 16 May 2008, senthilraja P wrote:
> > I configured samba, and tried to access the share..  But its
> > extremely slow to move in to a directory.  (but other connections
> > like ssh & vnc are working fine..)
>
> Good work on setting up samba.
>
> Strange that your samba shares are slower than windows.  Are you using
> Vista+SP1 or XP+SP2?   I have seen a report that one needs the latest
> samba version for vista+sp1 because M$ introduced some new
> functionality for file sharing methods (sorry don't know the details).
>
> You may have to do some performance tweaking.
>
> Personally, I have not touched samba for > 1 year so cannot help you
> with specifics.
>
> > Any solutions for this?  To make the linux file share as fast as
> > windows one?
>
> I suggest you search through the SAMBA FAQs and mail list archives
> (www.samba.org), I am sure others have experienced the same and got
> their solutions there.
>
> --
> Arun Khan
>
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