Make samba faster on ubuntu 14.04

sambaConf.md

Make samba faster on ubuntu 14.04

Solution # 1: Sockets

The recommendations taken from amahi's wiki

• sudo nano /etc/samba/smb.cnf
• locate [global] section
• add the following:

socket options=SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072 TCP_NODELAY
min receivefile size = 16384
use sendfile = true
aio read size = 16384
aio write size = 16384

• Save and Exit. Reboot your machine.

Now samba should be much faster (enables sockets, Async IO)

Solution # 2: Ethernet drivers

Another idea is that ethernet drivers are outdated (a hint given by this thread)

• (Instruction taken from here (Ehow: How to update drivers on Ubuntu))
• Go to Dash
• Type "Additional Drivers"
• See if you have some additional/proprietary drivers for any of the ethernet devices
• Update and Activate them
• Reboot your machine.

Other Things to try

• Samba Optimization
• Disable ufw firewall: sudo ufw disable.
• For Windows Clients: Dmizer's Workgroups, Netbios name, Firewall, etc.
  • Make sure your workgroup is same as other machine
  • add netbios name = COMP_NAME in [global] section (COMP_NAME is everything after the @ in terminal)
  • Make sure your firewall is disabled (sudo iptables -L should look like this if it is disabled)
• Try AFP file sharing instead of samba