Hi Andras,
There used to be a Win32 NFS client in the Unix tools for NT, not sure
if they're still available, but I think they got abandoned and were
turned into a free open download somewhere on the MS site. How are you
using Samba...? Is it serving bog-standard SMB or CIFS...? Any special
tweaks or other parameters...? Fact is that SMB is always slower than
FTP or SCP, mainly because it's a very chatty protocol with quite a lot
of overhead compared to ssh, nfs and ftp. SMB on a Samba server is
faster than SMB on a Win server, but always slower than protocols
specifically desgined to run on top of TCP/IP (which SMB/NetBIOS was
not..) without the protocol overhead.
Cheers,
Erik
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 15:20 +0100, Andras Ikladi wrote:
> Speaking of which..
> I had quite bad experience with Samba (either windows-windows or
> linux-windows..and unfortunately even freebsd) speedwise. It never
> seems to get over 60-70megs/second even on the cleanest gigabit fibre
> connection, whereas on the same connection a linux-linux ftp (or
> another ip based protocol) transfer can deliver like 110megs, which is
> an insane difference.
> Question arises: anybody aware of and having experience with (possibly
> free) ftpmount or nfs clients on windows?
> General speed, stability..etc issues.
>
> cheers
> Andras
>
> On 9/12/05, Stefan Andersson <sanders3d(at)gmail.com> wrote:
> how many machines are connected to it? I've heard that Linux
> and samba
> can experience some problems when you are getting close to 30
> machines. FreeBSD or OpenBSD might be a better choice if
> that's the
> problem.
>
>
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