Slow network speed when using Nautilus

[fradav4]

When I access a samba share from Ubuntu to Ubuntu my transfer speed over my gigabit network is only about 6Mb/s. Accessing the samba share from Windows (client) to Ubuntu (server) my transfer speed was about 40Mb/s. So then I tried Ubuntu (client) to Windows (server) and my speed was back down to about 6Mb/s. At this point I figured it was something wrong with Nautilus. I used the command smbget from Ubuntu to Ubuntu and my speed was back up to about 40Mb/s. For the sake of trying it I put a large file on my web server (Ubuntu) and was able to grab the file from both Ubuntu and Windows at around 40Mb/s.

So it seems that when I try to drag and drop from Nautilus my transfer speed becomes almost 7 times slower!

After searching this forum and doing a few google searches, it seems like I am not the only one with this issue. Is there a known fix? I love Ubuntu but this could be a deal breaker if I can't find a workaround. We do massive amounts of media sharing between computers so I have to find a solution. Thanks for any input.

[cdenley]

Try installing smbfs, then mount it as cifs using /sbin/mount.cifs or by adding an line for it in /etc/fstab. I think cifs is faster, so maybe smbget uses cifs but nautilus uses smb. I'm not really sure.

I just tested this, and mounting a share as cifs seems to work twice as fast, which is about the same as smbget for me.


sudo apt-get install smbfs
sudo mkdir /media/myshare
sudo mount.cifs //myserver/myshare /media/myshare -o uid=1000,user=username,pass=password

[reckless2k2]

yeah i learned this in class that drag and drop gui stuff is much slower. i'm sorry i don't remember why. it is not just restricted to linux either. windows has the same issues.