I want to know if there is any free tool to test the performance of a smb/CIFS network share. All free speed test I saw were for local drives only.
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A:
There certainly is, it is called iPerf and it works pretty well. Only used the windows version on NT shares but there is a linux version too and you can test speed between one installed on the client (windows) and another installed on Linux (server)
Get it here
Calanus
2009-07-09 09:41:44
It doesn't look like the thing I'm looking for. This one can generate traffic on any port and this is not what I was looking for. It's not about the network speed - it about the speed of the file server.
Sorin Sbarnea
2009-07-09 13:23:41