[SWLUG] Samba - Mandrake 9.1

Dave Cridland [Home] dave at cridland.net
Mon Jul 28 14:01:04 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 13:36, Robert McQueen wrote:
> As a further aside, I find that smbfs is impossibly slow, because the
> windows implementation is so lame. Rather than using cp for copying
> files back and forth, I use "rsync -P" which gives you nice progress,
> data rate and ETA indicators.

Indeed - it also helps when something or other breaks halfway through
the copy.

Dave.





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