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suppenhuhn Author

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SMB Network Share Access slow (MAC OS X SL and Windows 2008 Server)

Hi,

I've added some iMacs with 10.6 to the Active Directory. This works totally fine. Anyways, I have some trouble, when accessing shares on my network. I found out, that some problems came up, because my network name was XXX.XXX.local I changed the Domain name of the Active Directory, but still the problems exist:
When opening the finder, Open Office or Microsoft Word on the Mac and browsing through files and folders, it sometimes takes up to 30 seconds and more, until the content of a folder appears... I already tried ADmitMac from Thursby, but it didn't seem to fix this problem. When accessing the shares from a Windows machine, they run pretty fast. Any idea?

Lenovo, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 6, 2010 6:04 AM

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suppenhuhn Author

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Nov 21, 2010 3:51 AM in response to Dark Silas

Did someone try, if the update to 10.6.5 does fix the problem?

Nov 21, 2010 5:01 AM in response to suppenhuhn

This is not an issue with Active Directory or Windows Server. I get this issue with a mac mini connecting to a Windows 7 box at home. When opening folders there is a delay of up to 30 seconds. Very annoying if you're looking through a few folders for something.

On top of this networking will crash on either the mac machine or the windows machine with error -36 and require a reboot of one or both machines. Why can't apple get this stuff right, it's meant to have been a problem for years.

Nov 21, 2010 5:38 AM in response to shodazz

"Okay. We found the solution. Extremez-IP, a thrid party tool that we installed on the server significantly reduced response times. "

That's great if it wasn't $800. What a rip-off!!! For a home user this is a little expensive, my mac mini cost around that much!

Nov 21, 2010 5:54 AM in response to shodazz

"I too have the exact same problem and need to figure it out soon. Very slow response times. It seems the server is getting over utilized (look at your resource monitor)."

I tried this an in my case the server is showing zero CPU usage and zero network transfer. The mac is also showing very low CPU. It doesn't make a lot of sense, nothing is busy so either the mac or the PC is waiting for no reason. Firewall is disabled so it shouldn't be waiting on lost packets.

Nov 21, 2010 6:19 AM in response to suppenhuhn

Ver 10.6.5 has this problem...

Nov 21, 2010 3:31 PM in response to Dark Silas

Dark Silas wrote:
Ver 10.6.5 has this problem...

I can confirm this

Nov 23, 2010 10:44 AM in response to suppenhuhn

Running WIndows server 2008 on a mainly WIn 7 and WIn XP client network. A few macs are in use OS 10.6.5.

Similar problems to others. Tried the smb://"server":139/"share" on Go/ Connect to Server and it works great.

Nov 24, 2010 9:39 AM in response to DennisP10

Just came across a solution that worked for me, here in the office...turn ON internet sharing: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12245148&#12245148

just implemented this on 3 10.6 machines and it works GREAT. Not sure why turning ON internet sharing fixes the SMB issue, but the listing is almost instant.

Nov 24, 2010 3:06 PM in response to Arron Bullock

Arron Bullock wrote:
Just came across a solution that worked for me, here in the office...turn ON internet sharing: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12245148&#12245148

just implemented this on 3 10.6 machines and it works GREAT. Not sure why turning ON internet sharing fixes the SMB issue, but the listing is almost instant.

Bizarre, that worked for me too. Thanks Arron. I've almost got networking working OK, I'm just missing gigabit speed. I'll see if this little fix will solve that problem also....

Nov 24, 2010 3:21 PM in response to Arron Bullock

Arron Bullock wrote:
Just came across a solution that worked for me, here in the office...turn ON internet sharing: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12245148&#12245148

just implemented this on 3 10.6 machines and it works GREAT. Not sure why turning ON internet sharing fixes the SMB issue, but the listing is almost instant.

Wow!! It appears to have solved the gigabit problem too. Hopefully it stays that way after a reboot etc. It looks like this issue would be fairly easy to fix which makes me wonder why apple haven't fixed it.

BTW, my third screen stopped working 2 months ago and I pulled it out of the cupboard last night and it started working. This was really surprising because it had 2 different faults (usb adaptor drivers not working and the screen wouldn't accept DVI input at all). Things are just going too freakishly well, something has to break down.

Nov 25, 2010 5:23 PM in response to MikeKulls

OK and now a laptop which apple said needed a new motherboard has started working again .... too much good lucky worries me 😉

BTW, the internet sharing thingy has still solved the problem.

SMB Network Share Access slow (MAC OS X SL and Windows 2008 Server)