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Windows Vista: Fucking with Windows Home Server?

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wild
on June 22, 2007
in Linux, Samba, Vista and Windows Home Server
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Well, I wanted to see what Windows Home Server was like, and also took the opportunity to test whether or not my Vista desktop got faster network speeds reading from a WHS server as opposed to a Linux Samba server. Now as I said in my last post, read speeds were about 5-6Mb/s when copying from my Samba server to a Vista client. Surely I thought Microsoft’s own server OS would absolutely trample Samba in the mud.

Anyone want to take a guess at the speeds I got between my WHS test box and Vista? Same configuration, gigabit network all round, etc…. Continue reading ‘Windows Vista: Fucking with Windows Home Server?’

Windows Vista: Fucking with Samba?

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wild
on June 21, 2007
in Linux and Samba
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My fileserver of choice for a while now has been a Gentoo Linux box as I’ve posted previously. It’s been working like a charm with Windows XP, I can’t complain at all about the transfer speeds.

However, Microsoft have changed pretty much everything in Windows Vista, and for no apparent reason than for the hell of it. One of the changes is SMB2, a new version of the Windows File Sharing protocol which, although not adding any improvements past changing the integer count from 16 to 32-bits, is apparently a huge improvement. If you believe Microsoft PR. Continue reading ‘Windows Vista: Fucking with Samba?’