On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:06, Steven Stern wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:44:55 -0700, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > >Guys, > > > > need some help. > > > > is there any way to get smb packets to speed up over a WAN link. > > > > Some way to prioritse the packets? > > > >There's a 1MB link from US to a server in Asia. Currently using FTP/HTTP > >conn will get like ~40-50KB/s transfer rate. However, using Samba, it's > >really very slow. > > > >Thanks for any response > >-- > > for what it's worth, copying data from the machine under my desk to the > machine on top of my desk runs much faster via ftp than SMB, whether I'm using > Samba or Windows to Windows. That I know. I can run ftp/rsync/scp but as mentioned, those are if you want to keep them offline till the time to sync them. I'm thinking more of like doing "real-time" saves
