When using SMB to transfer a remote file from one location on remote machine to another location on same machine, does it use the local machine as a gateway or does the data never leave the remote machine?
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Linux Liaison :ubuntu: (brandon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 18:29:09 UTC Linux Liaison :ubuntu: -
GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 19:14:18 UTC GeniusMusing @brandon Are you in RDS session or working from the outside? Also you can look at local network traffic to see. -
Linux Liaison :ubuntu: (brandon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 19:45:18 UTC Linux Liaison :ubuntu: @geniusmusing This is purely traversing directories of a remote computer using Windows Explorer (something like \\172.16.x.x\c$\)
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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 20:16:31 UTC GeniusMusing @brandon I would look at the speed of transfer depending on network speed between you and remote comp or data stream usage on your local machine. -
Linux Liaison :ubuntu: (brandon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 23:02:53 UTC Linux Liaison :ubuntu: Upon doing some research (looking into Samba and the SMB protocol implementations) I've found that SMB2 and Samba 4.10+ use the FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK to offload copy requests to the server(remote machine) where possible, eliminating the need for a network round-trip.
This used to not be the case prior to Samba 4.10 and SMB2 (assumedly)
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Linux Liaison :ubuntu: (brandon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 23:03:11 UTC Linux Liaison :ubuntu: Upon doing some research (looking into Samba and the SMB protocol implementations) I've found that SMB2 and Samba 4.10+ use the FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK message to offload copy requests to the server(remote machine) where possible, eliminating the need for a network round-trip.
This used to not be the case prior to Samba 4.10 and SMB2 (assumedly)
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Linux Liaison :ubuntu: (brandon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 23:07:26 UTC Linux Liaison :ubuntu: Upon doing some research (looking into Samba and the SMB protocol implementations) I've found that SMB2 and Samba 4.10+ use the FSCTL_SRV_COPYCHUNK message to offload copy requests to the server(remote machine) where possible, eliminating the need for a network round-trip.
This used to not be the case prior to Samba 4.10 and SMB2 (assumedly)
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Linux Liaison :ubuntu: (brandon@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jan-2019 23:08:21 UTC Linux Liaison :ubuntu: Super fucking happy to know this. It was important for my application approval pitch on Friday 👌
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