[Samba] 32 seconds vs 72 minutes -- expected performance difference?

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 06:56:48PM +0530, Saurabh Nanda via samba wrote:
> ## QUESTION
> 
> I am sharing a 120GB folder with lots of files via Samba on a LAN (1Gbps
> connection).

Define "lots of files" ? What does ls | wc -l say ?