[Samba] Slow at loading large folder tree

[Στέφανος Ντουρουντάκης]

> Hi all,
> I have been trying for some time to fix the following problem.
>
> Opening (listing?) from a NAS device a folder with about 000  
> subfolders takes around 5 minutes to load.
> I have been mingling with smb.conf with poor results.
> I get about 70K/s transfer rate when loading the folder on Gbit LAN  
> and 802.11g
> This is my smb.conf file, working on OSX 10.4.
>
> [global]
>   guest account = unknown
>   getwd cache = no
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   enhanced browsing = no
>   auth methods = guest opendirectory
>   passdb backend = opendirectorysam guest
>   printer admin = @admin, @staff
>   server string = Stairway
>   unix charset = UTF-8-MAC
>   display charset = UTF-8-MAC
>   dos charset = 437
>   use spnego = yes
>   client ntlmv2 auth = no
>   os level = 8
>   defer sharing violations = no
>   vfs objects = darwin_acls
>   brlm = yes
>   workgroup = Entec_Lan
> ; Using the Computer Name to compute the NetBIOS name.  Remove this  
> comment to override
>   netbios name = Stairway
>
> socket options = SO_KEEPALIVE TCP_NODELAY
> socket options = SO_SNDBUF=8192
> socket options = SO_RCVBUF=8192
> read raw = no
> write raw = no
> max xmit = 65535
>
> wins support = no
> wins server = 10.62.23.1
>
> ;[homes]
>
> ;   comment = User Home Directories
> ;   browseable = no
> ;   read only = yes
>
> [hosts]
>
> ;server = 10.0.0.1
> ;door=10.0.0.2
> Edmini = 10.62.23.12
> EntecServer = 10.62.23.1
>
> [Downloads]
> path = Users/dourou/Downloads
> public = yes
> browsable = yes
> writable = yes
>
> [entec]
>
> path = /Users/dourou/Documents/Entec
> browsable = yes
> writable = yes
>
> [cruzer dourou]
> ;   path = /tmp
> ;   public = yes
> ;   only guest = yes
> ;   writable = yes
> ;   printable = no
> path = /Volumes/dourou ti
> public = yes
>
> [edmini]
>
> path = /Volumes/ED_MINI
> public = yes
>
>
>
> Thanx guys