Jeremy Visser <jeremy@visser.name> writes:
I have a friend who bought a “gigabit” NAS (Western Digital MyBook World) which couldn’t even do 100 Mbit/s of SMB traffic. Mind you, with her Windows XP client machine using only a fixed 16 KB buffer by default (without tweaking the registry — oh gosh, SMBv1 is *fun* over high-latency WAN links) the box was kind of set up for failure...
ITYM CIFS. The NAS is probably running samba3 and I assume XP is new enough to speak CIFS -- SMB is older still. samba4 is finally out and that (and current linux kernels) speak SMB2, which WP indicates is in the same class of "we fixed all the design features" as NFSv3->NFSv4. I doubt samba4 is shipping in any appliances yet. (Has anyone evidence to the contrary?) In my testing so far samba4 has been pretty turnkey provided you're happy for it to hijack your entire DNS, and don't already use LDAP for anything else (like linux clients or sudo). Haven't tried to point a linux client at it yet -- not looking forward to finding out which winbind derivative is du jour since likewise was acquired... Er, sorry about wandering off on a tangent.