I have a small professional network to manage: 1 server and 2 clients under Windows 7 pro. On the 2 clients is installed a software that fetch datas from a proprietary database on the server through Windows network. Nothing very complicated. It worked like a charm. After some malware/virus issues, I decided to replace the windows server by a linux's one under Samba. OS is Debian 8. It also works now, data are well retrieved but this is far more slow than with older windows machine.
I have read a lot of things on samba tuning and then tried several possibility to improve performance but nothing was concluding yet. My first question: what is the best way to measure exactly performance of samba (network speed)?
Second question: does something seems obviously wrong in my smb.conf:
# Global Settings
[global]
username map = /etc/samba/usermap.txt
workgroup = WORKGROUP
dns proxy = no
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 1000
syslog = 0
panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
server role = standalone server
passdb backend = tdbsam
obey pam restrictions = yes
unix password sync = yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
pam password change = yes
map to guest = bad user
usershare allow guests = yes
#socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=524288 SO_SNDBUF=524288 IPTOS_LOWDELAY
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
strict allocate = Yes
allocation roundup size = 104857600
read raw = Yes
write raw = Yes
strict locking = No
min receivefile size = 16384
use sendfile = Yes
aio read size = 16384
aio write size = 16384
# Share Definitions
[share]
comment = share
path = /home/share
guest ok = yes
browsable = yes
read only = no
writable = yes
Thanks for reading!
