Re: how to increase through put of LAN to 1GB
On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 06:00:10AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Samba uses TCP because its protocol is CIFS/SMB, which use TCP. Samba
> doesn't speak TCP. CIFS/SMB are two layers up the OSI stack. They you
> can't "tune" Samba's network performance. You can only tune Linux' TCP
> performance, and Samba will benefit.
Client configuration is not irrelevant, though, either. I have a SMB
server at home which serves at 'decent' speeds to my Linux clients, and
dire speeds to my Windows client. I have no idea why, yet.
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