From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 8:52:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from schmoo.tclme.org (schmoo.tclme.org [208.24.53.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C66AC37B71D for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 08:52:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgreene@tclme.org) Received: (qmail 63696 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 16:51:43 -0000 Received: from dialup5.austintx.com (HELO tclme.org) (rgreene@208.24.53.7) by mail.tclme.org with SMTP; 25 Mar 2001 16:51:43 -0000 Message-ID: <3ABE23CB.A1692D9B@tclme.org> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:58:51 -0600 From: Bob Greene Organization: TclMe.org X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: William Wong Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Samba and Windows 2000 References: <002201c0b508$7cc49e00$0300a8c0@anime.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG William Wong wrote: > > Hi there, > > Has anyone noticed that changing/listing folders under win2k through samba > shares is much slower than with Windows 98? > > For me the file transfers themselves seem to be spiffier under win2k, but > looking through folders can be quite slow. > > Regards, > - Will > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Check out http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q245/8/00.asp (intuitive, ain't it?) Brian livingston covered this in InfoWorld, vol. 23 issue 11 I have an office full of Win2k boxes that have shown better performance after this hack. Use regedit32 to locate: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Explorer/RemoteComputer/NameSpace Save the key {D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} to a file so you can restore it easily and then delete it from the registry. -- Bob Greene rgreene@TclMe.org Pull my finger for my public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message