Slow Access From Windows 7 To Samba Share On CentOS 6.6 After Upgrade

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Hi all,

Did anybody notice a really slow access from Windows 7 (especially from the MS Office suite) when trying to open a Word-doc for example, that sits on a samba share on a computer recently upgraded to CentOS 6.6?
It can take up to two-three minutes to open a 20 kB Word-doc…

I tested with the latest available LibreOffice for Windows on the same Word-docs, but this one doesn’t show this sluggishness.

Also opening PDF-documents on the samba share with Adobe Reader from Win7 gives this problem.

Opening e.g. jpegs and regular plain text files with Irfanview and Notepad++ respectively is just fine.

Pre-CentOS 6.6 opening any file on the samba share from Windows was lightning-fast.

I’m not too sure where to start trouble-shooting. I’ve tried disabling the TCP autotune on Windows for starters, which a small improvement, but what next?

Hints would be appreciated. Thanks.

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    correct me if i am wrong on any of these ‘note’s.

    note1: LibreOffice for oos comes from LibreOffice site, not from oos.

    note2: “Adobe Reader from Win7” means updated from oos, not Adobe site.

    note3: Irfanview and Notepad++ have not been updated lately.

    note4: oos not updated prior to CentOS 6.6 update.

    interesting.

    in the past couple of months, i read an article at att.yahoo.com that oos had started rewriting their software so that it would not be compatible with gnu/linux servers.

    so, if you have updated linux and oos systems within past few months, i would give thought to relation of updates of both systems and when you started noticing slowdown.

    just ‘swag’, but may prove out.