On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 16:17, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Right now, ping times and traceroutes are showing up as 200ms latency. > ssh to the samba box is _ok_. not too bad, I get some feel of latency > but is generally acceptable. > > > > > > > >You might try tunneling the traffic and compressing it but I doubt that > > >would give you the kind of improvement you are looking for. > > I'm not sure how that can be done. > Currently I'm mounting the share from the samba box to my laptop.(mount > -t smbfs ) and saving files to it frequently have app hangs. (even > browsing folders) > > How can I do the tunneling? Any suggestions? IPSEC? SSH? etc? I'm new in > this. > SSH would be easy to try. It can be configured for compression so might give you some improvement in throughput. I have had success using ssh with compression for vnc and x-windows connections across the Internet. It did improve the response times for me. There is also stunnel but I don't know if it has compression or not. The trick is to use something that will compress the data before sending it. > That's not largely a problem. The problem here is that I won't be able > to get a _real_time_ copy of the data. (unless I set up rsync like every > minute or so.. but the stress on the server and my notebook!) > > Thanks guys. I guess there's nothing much that can be done. It's not > only Samba shares, even accessing windows shares are a _real_pain_ > -- Maybe we need to step back from the problem a little. Would nfs do the trick? I have not used nfs much but I think the overhead is less than samba. I take it one end point is a Windows box? You might check out cygwin. It has a lot of unix type tools available. > -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Don't look now, but the man in the moon is laughing at you.
