Samba - slow copies

[NoOp]

On 12/23/2007 10:02 AM, Kim Briggs wrote:

> On 12/19/07, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> I'm having a bit of a problem with copying files from one Ubuntu to
>> another (both Gutsy - 2.6.22-14-386 kernels). The problem is that when I
>> copy a large file from this system to a laptop (fresh install + all
>> updates) the copy is extremly slow
> .......
>>
>> Any ideas on what might be causing this, and/or what I can try to tune
>> to speed things up?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Have you considered using NFS?  Since you are using two linux
> machines...my experience has been that NFS is superior in every way.
> 

Thanks. I have indeed considered using NFS, but tend to keep to Samba
because I also have dual boot machines with Windoze on them.

However, I think that I found the problem; installing the standard
kernal rather than the generic (I keep having problems with the
generic/geriatric kernal) reinstalling samba & setting the the directory
that I was copying to with a proper samba share configuration seems to
have done the trick.  I've a few days off, so I'll do a test with NFS as
well tomorrow.