wmcbrine
Touched by His Noodly Appendage
join:2002-12-30
Laurel, MD | reply to Crypto
Re: OS X client, linux server, samba pain.
Have you considered NFS? Or maybe even AppleTalk? IMHO Samba is for talking to Windows. |
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Crypto
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join:2001-01-07
Saint Charles, MO
1 edit | Yes, I've considered it and utterly rejected the concept as rediculous.
I've found that NFS is terrible for most client/server installations, honestly. Linux has a lousy NFS server, the protocol itself is terrible for security up until nfsv4 and then it's not well supported. The authentication is ugly as well up to v4 and relies on UID/GID, which arent usually homogenous in my environments. Maybe if you're in an entirely UNIX environment it's okay, but this is not where I am.
SMB and CIFS are excellent cross-platform implementations. When one's network consists of one Linux server and a bunch of PC's with a few macs thrown in, samba is the logical choice. NFS is a needless security risk and simply asking for trouble, IMO.
So, no. I'm not going to set up NFS just for a few macs. I just want to fix whats wrong with samba.
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manifest
bitches
join:2004-08-14
Hartford, CT
| When you say slow, do you mean responsiveness of the share or how fast the data is sent? I have a linux server running gentoo and samba 3 2 pc's and a mac mini. I can get 9mb/s from linux to mac and vice versa. When I upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4 on the mac I noticed about a 3mb/s increase. |
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Crypto
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join:2001-01-07
Saint Charles, MO
| When I say 'slow' I mean that the data moves at under 1MB/sec via samba. Oddly, writing to the linux samba share is a little faster than reading from it.
It moves at close to wirespeed using any other transfer method, like scp or ftp
I have not shared out anything on the OS X boxes, because they are not servers, and I dont care how the OS X smbd performs.
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sporkme
drop the crantini and move it, sister
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join:2000-07-01
Morristown, NJ
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| said by Crypto  :I have not shared out anything on the OS X boxes, because they are not servers, and I dont care how the OS X smbd performs. You may not care, but you may gain some insight by trying that. |
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