Ubuntu samba slower than red hat??

[dgermann]

About 10 days ago I switched from a Red Hat 9.0 machine as my Samba server to Ubuntu. Ever since, things have been slow.

How do I mean, slow?

1st clue: previously, when I saved docs in OOo Writer, I would go ctrl-S and once every 4th or 5th time it would say it couldn't create a backup; now it is every time. So to save I have to go ctrl-S esc esc ctrl-S.

2nd clue: WinXP on login to the server times out before connecting the three drives it tries to connect--never before.

3rd clue: WinXp used to load directories instantly; now it takes 4-5 seconds.

There is some other weirdness too: when logged in to the server it reports the file owner and group as dean:1005. dean is the name of another user on this client machine, but rarely used. It should see it as doug:data, which is how the server sees it.

Also it used to see the files as
-rwxrwSrwt 1 root root 4.0K 2003-01-25 03:18 wgetrc

Now it sees them as
-rwxrwxrwx 1 dean data 99 1993-09-28 22:07 TEST.SDW


The new server: Ubuntu 6.06, Celeron D 2.53Ghz, one 200GB HDD, 6 months old.
The old server: RedHat 9.0, Celeron 2Ghz, one 80GB HDD with OS on it, one 120GB HDD with only data on it, at least 3 years old. Samba is at least that old.

So the question is, how can I speed up the Ubuntu samba? How would you troubleshoot this?

Some ideas I have not yet tried:

1. Remove all the commented lines from the smb.conf file.

2. Perhaps older versions of samba are just faster than the newer ones, and I should learn to live with it.

3. Perhaps there are some tweaks in samba that I need to learn about.

4. Copy over the old smb.conf file to the new system.

Where should I start? What is most likely to have a good payoff for time invested?

Thanks!

[voidinit]

4. Copy over the old smb.conf file to the new system.


That is probably your best option. BTW, removing the commented out lines would do nothing but make samba start about a millisecond faster when the computer boots.


As for the file owner:group weirdness it probably has to do with the entries in /etc/passwd and /etc/group not matching the entries from your RH 9.0 server. The filesystem only "sees" a UID and a GID attached to the file, it then reads /etc/passwd and /etc/group to match those IDs to the owning username and groupname. If your /etc/passwd entry on the Ubuntu box is mapped to the UID dean had on the RH 9.0, your files would show up as being owned by dean.

[dgermann]

voidinit--

What a quick response you give! Thanks!

I will probably try that, but not tonight anymore. I've learned not to do projects like that after dark!

Ahhh. the UID/GID stuff. That's one reason I'd like to get to all Ubuntu boxes--red hat starts users off at something like 500 and Ubuntu at 1000, so I'd have to go back through and manually change everybody on each box to the same numbers. Thought I did that a while back, but this change in boxes either caused a new mismatch or I missed one. More work!

Thanks, voidinit! I'll report back....

PS--any idea about that Swrt stuff?