Re: IBM i to network connection performance -- MIDRANGE-L

SAMBA is an excellent choice and is quite fast, but it does come with a
couple of caveats.

It does not play nice in any Kerberos environment for starters. Secondly
the management of the shares and users etc. is different and adds the steps
needed for that. Good news is if you have a PHP server (Zend at this point
but then IBM pays for the first year of support) you can use any one of a
number of excellent GUI tools to manage SAMBA.

SAMBA uses some well known TCP ports, but I've run into places where those
ports are shut down at the firewall between the data center and the user
network. Enlist the help of your firewall administrator if you have a data
center backbone that is protected from the corporate LAN.

SAMBA has actually been available for some time and I've successfully
installed and run it, but if you really like the "i stands for Integrated"
part of IBM i then you might be disappointed.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

There is now a Samba option on IBM i - this might be either you use
standard NetServer or you use Samba - I forget if that is a system-wide
preference.

But it does run much faster than the NetServer we know and love. Maybe one
of these links goes into using it - I didn't follow them to see.

I believe this support started in 7.1 - someone else can confirm or
discredit. :)

Vern

On 5/5/2016 11:37 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

It ain't the hardware, it's the OS. Pretty much using the same hardware,
back when IBM supported IXS (and it's predecessors) I could get it to run
much faster by having Windows on that IXS card.
IBM has acknowledged that IBM i isn't the fastest file server on the
market. At one release they were supposed to have brought it more up to
parity.

There's a few nuggets here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1011371
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/netserver/

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-ibmi-7_2-the-great-beyond/
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/netserver/releases/
Some people prefer NFS.

Rob Berendt
-- IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1 Group Dekko Dept 1600
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paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date:
05/05/2016 12:20 PM Subject: IBM i to network connection performance Sent
by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I seem to have a very
bad performance issue between the IBM I and my network when working with
files in the IFS and applications on my PC. We are on IBM I V7R2. I have an
excel .xml file called mytest3.xml (literally, that is the file name). The
file is 17k and has about a dozen rows and columns. When I open the excel
file from the IFS the file takes about a minute to load (using MS Excel).
When I take the IFS file and move it to the network, the file opens
instantaneously. (Note that moving the file from the IFS to the network
using File Explorer is instantaneous). .I have often thought that network,
and also HTTP interactions, with our IBM I have been slow, but have never
been able to pin it down. The Excel experiment above seems to highlight the
issue. The question is, what approach can I take to try address this issue?
How can I investigate the problem? Any help appreciated. Paul Paul Therrien
Andeco Software, LLC 225-229-2491 paultherrien@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.andecosoftware.com
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