Re: File transfer between Linux/Windows WITHOUT Samba, preserved date AND time a must!
From: joecouch (joecouch_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 04/28/05
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Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:10:27 GMT
joecouch wrote:
> toor wrote:
>
>> Hello Linux friends,
>>
>> After the steep learning curve period of about 9 months I have bumped
>> into
>> a tricky problem.
>>
>> Samba is nice, very nice. I discovered the hard way that Samba will only
>> work with a Windows box that has Netbios enabled over TCP/IP. This
>> creates
>> the following unwanted "features":
>>
>> 1) Netbios enabled over TCP/IP on a Windows box slows the Windows box
>> down
>> because there are DNS queries going all over the world for silly things
>> like a simple file search (using Powerdesk as an example). Opening a
>> local
>> PDF file with Acrobat on a Netbios enabled over TCP/IP Windows box
>> takes 4
>> times longer!
>>
>> 2) File transfers are NOT fast, topping out at best 4 mB per second
>> over a
>> 100 mbs LAN.
>>
>> 3) Privacy is compromised severely because file searches will send out
>> DNS
>> queries that explicitly ask for specific filenames! Ouch!
>>
>> It appears that Netbios enabled over TCP/IP Windows box works well if and
>> only if that same box DOES not produce any queries of it's own. eg.
>> operating as a headless file server.
>>
>> So I killed all Netbios enabled over TCP/IP Windows boxes except for a
>> backup file server. No more unwanted traffic.
>>
>> I went back to the "trusted" FTP to do file transfers however I forgot
>> one
>> very important fact. A good FTP client will preserve the date and time
>> that the file was created (eg, gFTP in Linux) on a download from a
>> server,
>> but there is no FTP server out there that does the same for files
>> uploaded
>> to it. (Correct me if I am wrong). FTP kills Samba in file transfer
>> speed.
>> Suddenly uploads/downloads on a 100 mbs LAN went up to 9-10 mB per
>> second.
>> 2-3 times faster than Samba. That is fast when you have gigabytes to
>> move.
>>
>> My question is what protocol is out there (Samba excluded) that will
>> allow
>> transfers on a closed LAN that have the following properties?:
>> 1) Fast! 9-10 mB per second is what I expect.
>>
>> 2) Uploads AND downloads must explicitly have their date and time
>> preserved as part of the protocol. I am very surprised that FTP has
>> existed so long without this feature.
>>
>> 3) The client should operate similarly to a good FTP client that shows
>> directories and file sizes for both the local and host systems.
>>
>> 4) The protocol in question must exist for both Linux and Windows. GNU
>> preferred.
>>
>> 5) I use Debian and thus .deb distributions are preferred over .rpm
>>
>> Thanks for taking the time to read this post carefully and responding to
>> it.
>
> Try Rsync, works great for me.
> http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/
sorry, you also need this for windows machine.
http://optics.ph.unimelb.edu.au/help/rsync/
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