RE: [Openvpn-users] Performance on Windows Shares

["Ed Russell" <ed.russell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes I had already stumbled upon this.  In addition the comments about a
virus scanner peaked my interest.  When I used both of these 2 things
together the performance was precisely what I had expected.  I had never
ever expected anywhere near LAN speed; just not having to wait up to 4
minutes for a directory tree to appear :P  As usual the knowledge level on
this group never ceases to amaze.

Ed


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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Klettke [mailto:thomas@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 10:02 AM
To: ed.russell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Performance on Windows Shares

On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 12:10 -0400, Ed Russell wrote:

> However, the biggest thing I have been noticing is that there is a pretty
> large latency when dealing with Windows shares.  Now I am using routing
and
> I basically want to keep it that way.  So once I connect in to an
> environment I map a windows share with a net use based upon IP.  I can map
> no problem whatsoever but navigating the drive is incredibly slow.  I have
> tried into a DSL environment, into a T1 environment, from a T1
environment,
> etc etc.  No matter the host or the client bandwidth it usually feels the
> same.  Is there anything I can do to help tune this, or is just par for
the
> course?  Any feedback would be appreciated.
> 
Ed,
performance problems with Windows networks I have found to be caused
often by name resolution problems. If you have a WINS server available
on your network, make sure that the remote client knows about it.

I've had a similar problem where SMB client and server would sit for a
long time trying to resolve each others names via broadcast. Setting up
WINS on the server and putting it in the client's DHCP configuration
(option netbios-name-servers) immediately took care of it.

Of course, a T1 will never give you the same speed as a local
network ;-)

Cheers,
Thomas

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