I have a buffalo linkstation NAS drive connected to my router.
I can access this drive via smb or via ftp.
Bot work fine and I have no complaints.
I have a question regarding speed of transfers though.
Using the ftp protocol in Dolphin I tend to get transfer speeds nearly twice that of using smb.
For example - transferring a .avi file from the NAS to my local computer on a wireless N router - ftp I get transfer speeds of approx 9mb. Using smb transfer speeds max out at approx 3mb.
Is this an expected behaviour?
Here is my smb.conf if any help
[global]
workgroup = farcusnet
netbios name = ThinkPad
passdb backend = tdbsam
name resolve order = bcast host lmhosts wins
printing = cups
printcap name = cups
printcap cache time = 750
cups options = raw
map to guest = Bad User
usershare allow guests = Yes
usershare max shares = 100
usershare owner only = false
use client driver = yes
include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf
wins support = Yes
add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$
domain logons = No
domain master = No
security = user
ldap suffix =
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
valid users = %S, %D%w%S
browseable = No
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
# [profiles]
# comment = Network Profiles Service
# path = %H
# read only = No
# store dos attributes = No
# create mask = 0600
# directory mask = 0700
[users]
comment = All users
path = /home
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
veto files = /aquota.user/groups/shares/
[groups]
comment = All groups
path = /home/groups
read only = No
inherit acls = Yes
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/tmp
printable = Yes
create mask = 0600
browseable = No
[print$]
comment = Printer Drivers
path = /var/lib/samba/drivers
write list = @ntadmin root
force group = ntadmin
create mask = 0664
directory mask = 0775
## Share disabled by YaST
# [netlogon]
# comment = Network Logon Service
# path = /var/lib/samba/netlogon
# write list = root