SBS 2008 File Sharing with MacOS X Leopard and Snow Leopard

Hello!

Ive noticed that in three different SBS 2008 boxes. When a Macintosh
workstation running OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard tries to access a sharepoint
using smb://serverFQDN or smb:serverip, the authentication dialog takes too
much time to show up. The samba version of MacOS X Leopard is Version
3.0.25b-apple and Snow Leopard is: Version 3.0.28b-apple.

I have already tried the following in the Windows SBS 2008 box:

1. Disable SMB signing
2. Disable Samba v2
3. Disable TCP chimney offload in the OS and the network card
4. Disable Receive size scaling in the OS and the network card
5. Adjust the following registry values to 0 on server side:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters\Enablesecuritysignature
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Lanmanserver\Parameters\Requiresecuritysignature

Is there any way of speeding up the procedure?

Thanks in advance

Kostas Backas

 

Hi,

This thread is a bit old but I hope my post might be useful.

I've had slow performance with Vista and Windows 7 to access SBS2008
server File Shares and got upset because Windows XP worked just fine!

After some while of troubleshooting and testing both clients and server
I finally solved the issue.
When creating Files Shares in SBS2008 (or W2K8) you can enable "access
based enumeration" and if you do the performance is drastically
decreased!
I just disabled "access based enumeration" and the performance of
copying files etc was increased!

Kind Regards,
raja

 

As far as I can see, this setting is not enabled by default, which is a good
thing, based on your experience.