If you are using MAC OS X and have experienced slow transfers speed and hangs, this is the solution that has worked for me (found on Samba wiki)
Slow file transfer – especially smaller filesUnder some situations, folder/directory browsing and transfer of smaller files (<10MB) can be very slow (~300kb/s on a 100Mb/s network). This has been experienced on Mac OS X and Debian GNU/Linux (Samba 3.0.23d). In both cases, the solution has been to add this option to the global section of smb.conf
large readwrite = no
to add this option, do the following
# cd /etc/samba # cp smb.conf smb.conf.old # nano smb.conf
Interesting, did this help? I have not done anything to enhance Samba performance on VortexBox. Maybe that's a feature we could add in the next release. I also found these on the net. Quite a few people say the "socket options" provides a big performance gain.
The solution I indicated in my post has definitely helped me to have quicker access to files on VBA (both in Finder and Cyberduck) – before changing that setting, browsing the files would often hang for long periods making remote access from my MacBook almost unusuable. The solution has been working for me for weeks. But I still think that samba access from Mac OS X could use some improvement (I often run into problems when I first try to connect — it can time quite a lot of time for applications to see the samba shares even after they have been mounted).
My troubles are with editing tags on the VB via my Mac on Samba – the write speed is dismal, to the point of unusable… it appears even with this change. I'll give the socket options a try tonight.
dcm said:My troubles are with editing tags on the VB via my Mac on Samba – the write speed is dismal, to the point of unusable… it appears even with this change. I'll give the socket options a try tonight.
Nope – neither the socket options or the ripit config bug (which was confirmed on my box) fixes seem to make any difference on editing tags over samba on my Mac. Its really the only drawback I have had to my VB experience – I'd love to figure out what the problem is, or another way to quickly and easily edit tags.
Seems like you migh have a network problem. Are you using a wireless network? I have 6500 FLAC files and I can edit the tags in about 1 second. I didn't even add the padding.
The VB is wired and I have two macs, one wired, one wireless and both take about the same amount of time – ~1min per song to save tag changes. I've tried various tag editors (none of them are very good) and they all take about that long or hang while waiting.
for what its worth I copied a flac file onto my wired mac – edited it with the wireless mac via apple share and it saved instantly – my hunch has always been that this is related to samba and Macs handling of that, but its just a hunch
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