Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Wed Jun 16 02:21:10 UTC 2004



On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> true.. Well right now, using samba is also w/o encryption. I just
> managed to find out how "fast" it is.
>
> I just did a port forwarding with Compression using SSH they way satish
> mentioned, and used tcptrack to measure the connection speed as I copy a
> file from my local drive to the mount point
>
> I see transfer of like 4KB/s. Now, that's bad. SCP can get me like
> 100+KB/s

I guess latencies do affect SMB..

Satish





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