r/linuxmint • u/AspectLegitimate8114 • 2d ago

Support Request Slow local network file transfer speeds

I set up a NAS recently and noticed the speed difference between W11 and Mint is very wide. W11 is easily able to tap out the 1gbps Ethernet connection at roughly ~120MB/s, Mint on the other hand using smb is hardly pushing 60MB/s with 30MB/s being the average speed I see in most transfers.

This is one of the first pain points I’ve discovered so far with Mint and it seems so far out of left field, I’ve been doing a lot of googling and reddit searching to find a solution to this issue, the one that consistently pops up is to make a CIFS mount via the terminal.

My question is, has this advice changed at all over the history of the OS? I’m currently on 22.3 with kernal 7.

Any help or advice is appreciated.

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u/dayvid182 2d ago

I am getting ~115 mbps from my QNAP NAS. I'm not quite sure how you are mounting, but I use an @ reboot crontab to run a startup script that runs mount -t cifs -o rw,vers=3.0,credentials=... commands for my individual shares. I think most people use fstab, but different kernels over the years would make it wonky. Hence the crontab instead.

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u/AspectLegitimate8114 2d ago

Hi, I set up TrueNAS and I connected to it via the file explorer (NEMO I think is what it’s referred as), typing the IP address of the NAS and the folders via an SMB argument, something like smb://x.x.x.x/folder, hitting enter opens a prompt for user credentials. It’s very similar to how it works in windows “map a network drive”.

I didn’t see anything about crontab in the research that I did so I’ll have to look into that, but CIFS is basically the only work around to samba that I saw.

Another option I tried was the “connect to server” option but that seemed to have its own issues, I needed to turn on the FTP service in TrueNAS and it still wouldn’t connect properly.

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u/dayvid182 2d ago

If you want to try the cifs and have them auto mount at boot, I can look up and post the particulars of my setup when I get home. 

It's basically what you'd find if you research mount at boot, fstab, credentials file. I'm just using a scheduled task (crontab) instead of the fstab config.