<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Ian Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mrrooster@gmail.com">mrrooster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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snipzor</font></span><br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks for all the insight, everyone... I've spent the past couple hours messing with my smb.conf. Adding the line max protocol = smb2 to the global section of my smb.conf and bouncing the services resulted in my Windows machines being unable to connect over SMB. No message that I could find in /var/log/samba. However, adding the line socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=65536 SO_SNDBUF=65536 SO_KEEPALIVE (Did I just copy and paste somebody else's values into my system without digesting what they all meant? You bet I did) seemed to make all the difference. I'm now getting right around 100MB/sec transfers between my Linux vm and my Windows 7 workstation.<br>
<br>I have discovered a new wrinkle, however - Copying from one VM to the other results in speeds of only about 40MB/sec. Since these are both VMs, it may be that my disk array is the bottleneck now. I'll keep plugging away but I think at least as far as Samba goes, things are looking up.<br>
<br>To answer some of the questions along the way:<br><br>* LVM - I know that Linux has LVM and that one can grow disks. I also know that Linux can do everything Windows can do and probably more, it's just that I'm a Windows SysAdmin by trade and not only do I feel more comfortable working with Windows at the file server level, but this hobby helps me learn new things I can apply towards my career.<br>
* I'm aware of the MS Embrace-And-Extend way of cutting off a competitor's air supply. I have no allegience to MS and realize that they're still the opposite of Open. It's just what I'm most comfortable with.<br>
* I haven't messed with jumbo frames at all, and at the moment, since I don't think that's my bottleneck, I'm leaving that piece alone. The server I bought actually supports TOE but I'm not touching that either at this time.<br>
* My Windows server is a 2008 R2 box and it has Services for Unix installed. I've also extended my Active Directory schema in order to map domain accounts to Unix GIDs and all that razmatazz.<br><br>
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