Speed up Samba network access

Dropt these lines into your smb.conf file to speed up Samba access. Find the Global area section and paste them underneath:

read size = 65536
read prediction = true
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192

Depending on your network card and configuration, this should speed up your LAN transfers at least tenfold.

Accessing Samba shares through SSH

In Linux, you can access Samba shares by using a SSH prompt. We need a host PC (65.219.4.23) and a destination PC (192.168.0.81). We’ll usejack as a username but first we’ll create a new mount directory:

mkdir -p /samba/share

Now we connect to it:

ssh -N -L 139:192.168.0.81:139 [email protected] [email protected]

Now we do a

umount /samba/share
/bin/mount -t smbfs -o username=jack,workgroup=workgroup_name,password=user_password,
port=139,dmask=770,fmask=660,netbiosname=homecpu
//localhost/share /samba/share