[ale] ubuntu +windows shares

[Brian Pitts]

jeramey.beck at atlbecks.com wrote:
> When I try the following command:
> /mount -t cifs //192.168.1.129/pictures /media/pictures/ -o user='jeramey beck'/
> ubuntu prompts me for my password...I enter the password and everything gets 
> mounted and everything SEEMS fine.  But when I try to read or write any data 
> to/from this mount it is SOOOOOOOO slow that I just give up.  The data is a 
> collection of pictures...nothing real big...between 2 & 4MB each.

What network card do you have?
lspci | grep -i network

What's your link speed (replace eth0 with your NIC)?
sudo ethtool eth0 | grep Speed

How long does a transfer of one large file take take?
dd if=/dev/urandom of=foo bs=1MB count=100
time cp foo /media/pictures/

-Brian