Slow Samba

Symptoms

Clients may experience some sluggishness during read/write sessions to a network share.

Cause

In order to better facilitate our users of Windows Vista and Windows 7, we have upgraded Samba.

Microsoft has implemented new protocols for Windows Vista and Windows 7 for network communication. These protocols differ from the legacy protocols that were used in Windows XP and prior.
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