Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link

[Alan Horn]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:52:39 -0700
>From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Samba Shared Folders over a WAN link
>
> On Thu, 2004-06-10 at 13:06, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:44:55 -0700, Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Guys,
>>>
>>> 	need some help.
>>>
>>>        is there any way to get smb packets to speed up over a WAN link.
>>>
>>> 	Some way to prioritse the packets?
>>>
>>> There's a 1MB link from US to a server in Asia. Currently using FTP/HTTP
>>> conn will get like ~40-50KB/s transfer rate. However, using Samba, it's
>>> really very slow.
>>>

Is apache with webdav and SSL an option instead here ?

We use that very successfully over the wan to windows boxes for sharing 
files.

Cheers,

Al