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.