Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] windows slow to connect to sambe

[Dominic R. <dl...@ed...>]

Hi Remush

It's my tutorial so if there is something wrong I'd like to help you 
(and improve the tutorial).

I presume you mean you are running DL as a VM under VMWare Workstation 
7? I run DL in a real machine. My smb.conf is almost identical to the 
one on the web page. Connection is fast.

A couple of ideas, please try and let us know how you get on:

    * Did you select/load the VMWARE module in Setup? This gives better
      performance when running DL under VMWare VM. You can start it
      manually with '/etc/init.d/vmware start'
    * Samba has 3 daemons: smbd, nmbd and winbindd. I don't use
      winbindd, in fact I edit it out of /etc/init.d/samba. I don't know
      what it does but it is nothing useful for me and it adds lots of
      error messages to /var/log/messages. You could try removing it too
      (e.g. with 'pkill winbindd') and see if it helps.
    * Try adding:
      smb ports = 139
      to the [global] section and see if it helps. I have this line in
      mine. It prevent samba listening on port 445.
    * Can you test speed of any other network connections to the DL
      machine? A script here <http://www.alecjacobson.com/weblog/?p=635>
      might help with testing speed of ssh connections; my results,
      using cygwin from a machine on our lan to our local DL Samba
      machine are:
         Upload speed:   2648.80 kB/s
         Download speed: 10835.98 kB/s
      If you get similar speeds for ssh, but still very slow connections
      under samba, it tends to confirm that the problem lies with Samba.
    * Which version of DL are you using? [I am still using 1.4RC5, I hit
      snags when I tried 1.4RC6 and because it is a working server and I
      was short of time I stepped back to 1.4RC5 (so easy with DL!) It
      is possible (though unlikely) that there is actually a problem
      with Samba in 1.4RC6.]

Dominic

On 29/10/2010 01:54, Stephen Butler wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been following this tutorial: 
> http://www.edendevelopments.co.uk/dlsetup to learn how to setup a 
> devil-linux samba file server for our community centre.
>
> At the moment, i'm setting it up using vmware 7 on my laptop, using 
> NAT network in vmware.
> It takes more than 3 minutes to connect to the samba server in vmware.
>
> I've followed the tutorial exactly so far, and was wondering if anyone 
> has any suggestions.
>
> Regards,
> Remush