Daemon
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Re: OS X client, linux server, samba pain.
I can tell you it's not a fatal flaw in the SMB implementation in OSX. I have a Fedora box connected to a 10.4 machine (used to be 10.3), and it just flies.
In fact, it flies without me having to do anything special.
OTOH, multiple Macs might change the equation. I have heard anecdotal evidence that Macs insist on being the master browser and force constant elections until they win. If true, who knows what happens if multiple macs get together.
I agree with sporkme. If something about the packets on the link or the topology of the network is slowing it down, it may show the same symptoms with smbd on OS X.
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Crypto
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| said by Daemon  :I can tell you it's not a fatal flaw in the SMB implementation in OSX. I have a Fedora box connected to a 10.4 machine (used to be 10.3), and it just flies. Thats actually the most valuable data point I have gotten yet from this whole thing. That tells me that there might be something peculiar to the way this version of samba was compiled. Maybe it's time to compile it from scratch and see what happens.
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subcultured
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Jamaica Plain, MA
| said by Crypto :said by Daemon :I can tell you it's not a fatal flaw in the SMB implementation in OSX. I have a Fedora box connected to a 10.4 machine (used to be 10.3), and it just flies. Thats actually the most valuable data point I have gotten yet from this whole thing. That tells me that there might be something peculiar to the way this version of samba was compiled. Maybe it's time to compile it from scratch and see what happens. I was the admin for about a hundred macs in my last job and we had several Fedora boxen running samba flawlessly to the macs and windows clients alike. We also had one Debian fileserver (can't remember which version...) that did indeed give us some serious problems with netatalk but actually worked very well using SMB.
Obviously there is some other issue with your server. Check that your macs, when sharing to windows/linux clients via samba, perform up to standard just to rule out an odd firewall issue. Regardless, I'd suggest rolling your own samba. It can't hurt...
Good luck,
Ian
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