Samba or NFS+Windows Services For Unix

[Shaffer Paul]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of VJ
> Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 4:29 AM
> To: fedora
> Subject: Samba or NFS+Windows Services For Unix
> 
> Hi
>     I have tried both of them and I am somewhat less pleased 
> by the performance of samba (never going beyond 4.8Mbytes per 
> second between two computers). My questions is how safe is it 
> to use Windows Services for unix on Windows client and NFS on 
> Fedora server for using it as a file server.
> Regards from
> VJ
> 
VJ, the reason you see a throughput plateau in your data tranfser speed
has nothing to do with Samba.  The bottleneck is most likely your 32-bit
PCI bandwidth.  I have seen about 5x that throughput to a Samba server
between 64-bit/66 PCI network interfaces running GigE.

v/r

Paul


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