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SMBclient and Local Access Transfers...

Posted by Cliff on from the i'm-slower-when-I-talk-to-myself dept.

maan asks: "I recently started using smbclient under Linux. I know that many test results have showed that Samba as a server gives more throughput than an NT server. However, I have found that smbclient is much slower with than Windows when accessing the localhost. Anyone knows if the Samba client needs more work?" That's rather odd. Can someone verify this behavior? Does anyone have any possible explanations?

2 of 8 comments (clear)

  1. Wrong forum? by Zaffle · · Score: 2
    This question should probably be asked on a samba mailing list, or even better, search the archieves first.

    http://us1.samba.org/samba/archives.html.

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  2. connections over localhost by darkrot · · Score: 2
    I've had the observation that localhost is extremely slow on my linux box -- for some reason I get a throughput of about 10kbit/second over localhost. This seems to happen on freebsd boxen too.

    The solution to this problem is to use the actual IP address of your computer instead. I haven't tried 0.0.0.0, but that might work as well.