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Speeding up Samba file copying?
Posted Nov 15, 2005, 10:00 AM ET by Victor Agreda, Jr.
Filed under: Software, Tips and tricks, Freeware, Internet, UNIX / BSD
You
know how copying large files between a Mac and PC can be so painfully
slow? Part of this surely comes from some magical file allocation
nonsense translation that occurs between NTFS and HFS, but plenty comes
from a little neworking problem. See, according to an anonymous poster
at macosxhints,
TCP winds up delaying packet acknolegements, which in turn revs Samda
down, which means my dang ripped movies don't copy as quickly. Er, I
mean those peskly PPT files… At any rate, the tip is to turn off the
delay. Sounds easy, but the method is a little scary. I have noticed my
mixed-client transfers going faster in Tiger, but I'm too scared to try
this one out. Anyone game?
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