samba dog slow

[englishpremier]

I've noticed that samba is dog slow on both Lion and Mountain Lion.

I can connect to my Ubuntu samba shares easy enough, but something as simple as opening a folder takes a good 3-5 seconds, and thats when the folder only contains a couple of files.

In contrast I'm also running a DAAP server to stream music from my ubuntu box to itunes and that absolutely flies.

Samba is so slow I can't even play a standard definition video on the Macbook, yet I can comfortably stream HD video via samba on my AO522 netbook.

What are my options?

 

[englishpremier]

That shouldn't be an issue, I'm running Samba 3.6.3

I wonder if Samba 4 would fair better, or should I be looking at some other filesharing service.

What do Mac servers run?

 

[englishpremier]

I setup an Apple Filing Protocol server on my Ubuntu box. Took about 5 mins.

http://www.barryprice.co.uk/2012/05/04/apple-file-server-on-ubuntu-12-dot-04/

The shares are now as fast as Samba is on my other devices.

I'll run the samba server side-by-side, for a while, but if all works out I'll just stick with AFP as I don't really use Windows (eliminating the need for samba).