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Ubuntu Server Cookbook
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Ubuntu Server Cookbook

by Uday Sawant
June 2016
Beginner
456 pages
9h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
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Performance tuning the Samba server

In this recipe, we will look at Samba configuration parameters in order to get optimum performance out of your Samba installation.

Getting ready

You will need root access or an account with sudo privileges.

It is assumed that you have installed the Samba server and it is properly working.

How to do it…

  1. Open the Samba configuration file located at /etc/samba/smb.conf:
    $ sudo vi /etc/samba/smb.conf
    
  2. Add or edit the following options under the global section of the configuration file:
    [global] log level = 1 socket options = TCP_NODELAY IPTOS_LOWDELAY SO_RCVBUF=131072 SO_SNDBUF=131072 SO_KEEPALIVE read raw = Yes write raw = Yes strict locking = No oplocks = yes max xmit = 65535 dead time = 15 getwd cache = yes aio read ...
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