To those running SAMBA servers:

Hey.

I've got a couple of questions for those of you running linux/SAMBA servers
for SW files:

-What filesystem(s) do you use for the samba partition (Some kind of
journaling FS, I assume)?
-Any special tweaks to the smb.conf file to increase speed? (ie: disable
support for 8.3 filenames for older win clients)
-Have you played with block sizes, i-node settings, etc?
-Anything else?

thanks,
nick e.

(server will be mandrake9.1 (or 9.2))

 

I pretty much run with defaults. EXT3 partitions.

I would like to figure out how to get pdmvault service to run on Wine. I
started into it and ran out of time, but it should be doable.

 

I run a EXT3 file system w/ no tweaks done to the smb.conf file.
Basically just a "standard" config and it has worked well.

 

ext3 runs nice.

samba is far faster than my 100mbit/s network cards.

defaults usually are fine.

none, but please don't use mandrake.
for servers, you *SHOULD REALLY* move to slackware or debian.

cheers.

 

Gianni Rondinini quipped:

what's that phrase dogbert uses?

oh yeah.

Bah! <wave dimissive hand>



you know, i use it at home and know it, so it'll be ok.

besides for servers, you're supposed to use BSD.

-nick e.

 

i love dogbert... unfortunately it's not that common here in italy and
i have to google the net to find something...

this would be the best solution, but while slackware may probably be
installed by almost anybody, setting up a netbsd --don't tell me of
freebsd, please -- server is a little bit trickier.
and often in work environment you don't have the 20 minutes netbsd
requires more than linux to be set up.

the other thing is that having a journaled file system in netbsd is
not as straight forward as in linux and i'd highly recommend to use
one on production servers.

bofh-regards