Incredible!!! HUGE speed improvement

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

has anyone tried this on NT machines, too?  what happens?  is it slower
with a UNC on nt or with a drive-map, or no difference?

i notice that it's _incredibly_ slow running over a mapped drive from an
NT client.  maybe they do something completely stupid, like resolve the
UNC _every_ time it does an SMBreadX or something...

luke

On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Jim Watt wrote:

> --On Friday, January 23, 1998, 9:41 AM +1100 "Eloy A. Paris" <eparis at ven.ra.rockwell.com> wrote: 
> 
> [SNIP!}
> 
> } Then, suddenly, I had an inspiration: why not to map \\zeus\eparis as
> } a network drive and use that instead? That's what I did so I started
> } Eudora as ""C:\Eudora\Eudora.exe I:\Eudora" when I: was mapped to
> } \\zeus\eparis. Now guess what: the thing flew like a rocket!!! It took
> } like 3 seconds to get Eudora openened.
> } 
> } So, now I know this thing has nothing to do with Samba because in
> } order to improve speed I did not change anything in Samba, I changed
> } things in Windows 95.
> } 
> } My conclussion is that is a lot slower to access a share through an
> } network drive than using its UNC path. I guess this is because
> } Windows 95 has to do a lot more work with the UNC path than with a
> } drive letter.
> 
> We've seen dramatic performance differences with Win95 lettered drive
> mapping versus UNC paths also.  It's disturbing, because maintaining
> the UNC paths can be done centrally, but not the lettered drive mapping.
> 
> Don't you mean...
> 
> } My conclussion is that is a lot faster to access a share through an
>                                   ^^^^^^
> } network drive than using its UNC path. 
> 
> That's what your data, and ours, suggests!
> 
> Jim
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