[NCSA-discuss] windows/explore/samba - why so slow?

[Steven Champeon]

on Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:16:48PM -0700, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> Is this just windows, does it have trouble going down 
> multiple levels of directories, or do I have something wrong 
> with my samba server?

I ran into this a couple years ago. ISTR that this was an idiotic
Windows setting, not a Samba thing, and that it involved Windows trying
to copy every @!%#! remote file to the local HD.

 http://www.gatago.com/linux/samba/14535950.html

Do you see it from both Explorer and "My Network Places"? Or just the
latter? 

Or it might be this:

 http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/HA.html#id2592380

Or it might be this:

 http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/04/07/570801.aspx

HTH,
S

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