Hi Stephen, what's samba's version are you using ??? there is an issue about the latest samba's version that slowdown it. take a look ate the samba's site.
On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 21:45, Stephen Tait wrote: > I've just been migrating my other Linux boxes over to NFS, instead of > samba, for mounting their remote drives from the Debian. Got it all working > perfectly after I managed to lock myself out of SSH - d'oh! Thought the > machine had died, and ruined my 130 day uptime. Oh well. > > But now I'm noticing that transfers from the windows box (lots of movie > renders going up) are about half the speed they used to be, and am > wondering if some of my entries in hosts.deny and .allow might be > responsible. I followed the basics of the NFS Howto here > http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/ and ended up with these: > > /etc/hosts.allow > portmap: hostip1 hostip2 > statd: hostip1 hostip2 > moutnd: hostip1 hostip2 > lockd: hostip1 hostip2 > rquotad: hostip1 hostip2 > > /etc/hosts.deny > portmap:ALL EXCEPT hostip1 , hostip2 , office > lockd:ALL EXCEPT hostip1 , hostip2 , office > mountd:ALL EXCEPT hostip1 , hostip2 , office > rquotad:ALL EXCEPT hostip1 , hostip2 , office > statd:ALL EXCEPT hostip1 , hostip2 , office > ALL:ALL EXCEPT hostip1 , hostip2 , office > > Where hostipX corresponds to an IP address of one of my LAN boxes. I was > also under the impression that hosts.allow was checked first, but nothing > would work unless I used the EXCEPT clause in hosts.deny. > > Could this be the cause of my network performance problem? Do I need to add > a clause for smbd, nmbd and all the other daemons I have running? > > I've tried googling for this, but I got hundreds of results about all > manner of networking problems that didn't sound like wot I got. I'm fairly > new to the Linux way of networking stuff (I cut my teeth on Linux with > Samba, and always used the inbuilt hosts allow/deny options there), so I'm > probably asking the wrong questions. Any help or educational flames much > appreciated! > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
