[oclug] Samba over Internet

[Mike Thomas]

Derek Cunningham wrote:

> On Tue, Mar26,02 13:03, Michael Thomas wrote:
> 
>>  Anyone here accessing a samba server over a cabe/dsl speed internet
>>connection? I have got it working but the speed is abysmal. I have
>>looked at a number of optimization docs but they all seem geared at
>>enhancing LAN access speed. Anyone have any tips for speeding things up
>>over slower speed links?(I am using W2K SP2 clients)
>>
>>
> 
> FYI:
> 
> Cable: maximum upstream of 500MBits (translates to around 60K/s transfer rate)
> DSL: maximum upstream of 128MBits (translates to around 15K/s transfer rate)


   Yes, I'm aware of the transfer rates of both mediums. I should have 
been more specific.  I'm not even talking about file access. A directory 
listing on a dir with one file takes > 20 seconds on average. A portion 
of the latency is due to the underlying FreeSwan VPN, but it is still 
extremely slow when I bypass the VPN. I know SMB can be quite chatty, 
but this seems unreasonable.

  In the past I have used Netware over 128kbit links with much faster 
performance, so me thinks there must be something that I can do to 
improve things.

  Mike.