Slow Samba transfer rates from Samba File Server
May 14, 2010
I was banging my head against the wall today trying to figure out why the heck it was taking 7 minutes to transfer a 12 mb file to my win xp desktop from my ubuntu samba file server. A simple change to my /etc/hosts file now lets me transfer a 514mb file in about 1 minute.
After much looking around online and not getting anywhere. I ran into one post that mentions the problem might be DNS related.
So I opened up the hosts file using
sudo nano /etc/hosts
Then i added the local ip followed by the FQDN of the maching then localhost and the machine name
127.0.0.1 machinename.domain.com localhost machinename
After doing this I then restarted networking
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Now when transfer files from the server. Instead of waiting 7 minutes to transfer a 12 mb file. The file now transfers almost instantly.
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