[SOLVED] make access to unraid faster in MAC OS X

[Baron_Harkonnen]

hi,

 

i found this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1975.0 about unraid being slow with unix systems because of samba exporting in DFS format by default, which unixes don't understand, etc.

anyway the forum says to disable DFS for samba

i have 2 questions:

 

1)i use unraid 4.7 - does what i mentioned before applies to this version of unraid? (the forum thread i provided is from 2008 after all...maybe things changed?....)

 

2) the solution Joe L. provided for this is adding those lines to GO script:

sed -i -e "s/host msdfs = Yes/host msdfs = No/" -e "s/msdfs root = Yes/msdfs root = No/" /etc/samba/smb.conf

smbcontrol smbd reload-config

now something tells me i should not write everything in the go script - i have to choose between =Yes and =No, Right??

basicly I'm asking how should i properly write this command

- like this? sed -i -e "s/host msdfs=No" -e "s/msdfs root = No" /etc/samba/smb.conf

is that right? and should i write this s/ thing??

 

please help - i don't want the screw up my server...

 

Thanks

[dgaschk]

Joe's command replaces "host msdfs = Yes" with "host msdfs = No" and replaces "msdfs root = Yes" with "msdfs root = No"  in the smb.conf file.

 

Google "sed"

 

You will need to learn shell scripting before you edit this code.

[Joe L.]

please help - i don't want the screw up my server...

You add those two lines, exactly as you see them here, in their entirity, at end of your config/go script.

sed -i -e "s/host msdfs = Yes/host msdfs = No/" -e "s/msdfs root = Yes/msdfs root = No/" /etc/samba/smb.conf
smbcontrol smbd reload-config

 

You can read it as two different "edit" commands.

"sed -i -e" = stream edit command

"s" = substitute

"/"  = start of string to replace

"host mdfs = Yes"  = actual string to search for

"/" end of string to search for

"host mdfs = No"  =  replacement string

"/" end of replacement string

 

and then same for the second "-e" edit, but changing "mdfs root"

 

 

 

 

 

[Baron_Harkonnen]

oh yeah, now i get it! damn, all that command line stuff and scripting starts to seem like lots of fun!

i added those lines to the script, i think it works! accessing the tower still takes up to 5 secs, but navigating inside the shares is just as fast as on local drives!

Thank you very much for help!

 

[rukiddin]

This solution seems to help once you've accessed the share for the first time, and then navigating within that share, but initially listing or returning to the main list of shares is still painfully slow.

 

Does anyone have a solution for that?

 

Mike