Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link
Scot L. Harris
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Thu Jun 10 21:44:05 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:17, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> Right now, ping times and traceroutes are showing up as 200ms latency.
> ssh to the samba box is _ok_. not too bad, I get some feel of latency
> but is generally acceptable.
>
>
> > >
> > >You might try tunneling the traffic and compressing it but I doubt that
> > >would give you the kind of improvement you are looking for.
>
> I'm not sure how that can be done.
> Currently I'm mounting the share from the samba box to my laptop.(mount
> -t smbfs ) and saving files to it frequently have app hangs. (even
> browsing folders)
>
> How can I do the tunneling? Any suggestions? IPSEC? SSH? etc? I'm new in
> this.
>
SSH would be easy to try. It can be configured for compression so might
give you some improvement in throughput.
I have had success using ssh with compression for vnc and x-windows
connections across the Internet. It did improve the response times for
me.
There is also stunnel but I don't know if it has compression or not.
The trick is to use something that will compress the data before sending
it.
> That's not largely a problem. The problem here is that I won't be able
> to get a _real_time_ copy of the data. (unless I set up rsync like every
> minute or so.. but the stress on the server and my notebook!)
>
> Thanks guys. I guess there's nothing much that can be done. It's not
> only Samba shares, even accessing windows shares are a _real_pain_
> --
Maybe we need to step back from the problem a little. Would nfs do the
trick? I have not used nfs much but I think the overhead is less than
samba. I take it one end point is a Windows box? You might check out
cygwin. It has a lot of unix type tools available.
>
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Scot L. Harris
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