SMB server browsing woefully slow
As the title says - browsing shared SMB servers from my iMac is painfully slow.
The server is Ubuntu Server running Samba. The Windows7 laptop I keep as a dev machine connects to the share and downloads/uploads files like lightning. I'll open a 300mb video on the server and it'll start playing in a couple of seconds. From OSX Lion, however, it takes about half a minute to simply list a directory. I tried to copy a 33byte (yes, 33 BYTE) text file from the server to my desktop and it took nearly 10 seconds.
Please tell me there is some hidden settings in the terminal I can use to speed things up because this is beyond a joke.
-Ben
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), Core i7 2.93GHz - 6GB RAM - 1TB HDD