Fighting painfully slow SMB shares
October 5th, 2008 1 comment
If you are running Vista or Mac OS X 10.5 / Leopard, you might have noticed that accessing files on Samba shares over your corporate network is dreadfully slow. Note that I’m not talking about network as in “my 10mbit Ethernet at home”, but as in “those strange fiber optic thingies running to my computer” (even though the problem occurs on slower networks as well).
But why is Samba such a pain suddenly?
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