From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 25 10:51:58 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 2732E37B719 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2001 10:51:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rgreene@tclme.org) Received: (qmail 83894 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2001 18:51:26 -0000 Received: from dialup18.austintx.com (HELO tclme.org) (rgreene@208.24.53.20) by mail.tclme.org with SMTP; 25 Mar 2001 18:51:26 -0000 Message-ID: <3ABE3FDF.D5B0F1AA@tclme.org> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:58:39 -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: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: William Wong , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Samba and Windows 2000 References: <001701c0b557$2bfda800$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > Hi Bob, > > Do you suppose you can tell us what the issue date of that > InfoWorld publication is? Their website's search engine does > not speak in volume/issue numbers, only month/date/year numbers. > > Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com > Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide > Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bob Greene > >Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2001 8:59 AM > >To: William Wong > >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > >Subject: Re: Samba and Windows 2000 > > > > > >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/Explor > >er/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. > > > > Sure. It was dated March 12, 2001. Livingston's column is called "Window Manager". We see a performance boost when browsing in Windows 2000 seemingly regardless of where the shares live. -- 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