Does anyone know if there is a root cause and solution to the OS X 10.6 Samba issues? We are seeing very slow connects from 10.6.2 to Windows Server 2003 via samba.
(smbclient connects fast every time)
Any suggestions?
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Does anyone know if there is a root cause and solution to the OS X 10.6 Samba issues? We are seeing very slow connects from 10.6.2 to Windows Server 2003 via samba.
(smbclient connects fast every time)
Any suggestions?
the below steps have helped me resolve this exact issue on a number of occasions:
That sounds like Samba and the Windows clients are taking a while negotiating the initial connection. Windows quietly closes unused connections in the background, which is why you're seeing the slow-downs after things have been unused; Windows is re-opening a connection. The two biggest areas that cause problems here are:
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Mac OS X's TCP delayed ack implementation's default mode of operation seems to run afoul of some SMB servers on some networks. Do this:
...and see if it's set to 3 (the default, at least as of Mac OS X v10.6 "Snow Leopard"). If it is, try setting it to 0 (off):
...and re-run your test. You may need to unmount any mounted SMB shares and re-mount them, so that you're creating new TCP connections to the server after changing your Delayed Ack setting.
If that solves the problem, you can make that change automatically take effect on every boot by creating a file:
and have it contain the line: