Samba shares vs. OS/2

Hi,

After setting up Samba and a few shares on an elderly Slackware box,
I've noticed that when browsing shares from my OS/2 system, the time
required to refresh the view of a directory is directly proportional to
the volume of data in the directory. Windows systems browsing the same
share are not affected.

For example, if (under OS/2) I walk through the share's tree to a
directory which contains ~150MB, I can bugger off for upwards of 30
minutes before I can actually see the directory's contents. In
contrast, a directory containing 10MB is viewable within the blink of an
eye.

Can Samba's configuration be tweaked in order to bring browsing time
under OS/2 down to a more usable level, can OS/2's networking config be
modified to fix this, or am I SOL?


-d.

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Don Guy wrote:
> For example, if (under OS/2) I walk through the share's tree to a
> directory which contains ~150MB, I can bugger off for upwards of 30
> minutes before I can actually see the directory's contents. In
> contrast, a directory containing 10MB is viewable within the blink of an
> eye.
>
> Can Samba's configuration be tweaked in order to bring browsing time
> under OS/2 down to a more usable level, can OS/2's networking config be
> modified to fix this, or am I SOL?
>

Try this in the OS/2 config.sys.

SET NOLARGENTEXEICON=1

Sjoerd