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Date:      Sun, 25 Mar 2001 12:58:39 -0600
From:      Bob Greene <rgreene@tclme.org>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        William Wong <willwong@samurai.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Samba and Windows 2000
Message-ID:  <3ABE3FDF.D5B0F1AA@tclme.org>
References:  <001701c0b557$2bfda800$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>

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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
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> >
> >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

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