On 10/24/2010 05:00 AM, J.A. MagallÃn wrote: > On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:46:36 +0200, "J.A. Magallïn" <jamagallon@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> If you mean hardware network path (cabling, router), yes. >> For file paths, CIFS fs is under /net/htpc/media, and gvfs uses a mount >> point on '~/.gvfs/media on htpc'. >> >> And here comes the weird part. To rule out the desktop environment factor, >> I tried a dd in both paths. On /net, I get 16.6 MB/s, and on >> ~/.gvfs/xxx, I just get 5.5 MB/s. I really don't understand anything... >> things get reversed depending if you use a gui or commandline. >> >> Weird, really weird... >> > > Well, to sort things out, I did some more tests (this does not mean things > get any closer to be clear for me at least...). > > Can anybody tell me whats going here...?? > It looks just like gui tools behave just in reverse of cli, and that a plain > smbclient is faster that cifs. I'm really confused... > Could you try mounting from commandline with something like `mount -t cifs //server/share /mnt/point -o user=user1` (commenting out the fstab entry) and try copying the file? -- Suresh Jayaraman -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html