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by kalleboo 3061 days ago
I have a NAS with both SMB and AFP (netatalk-based) support, and despite Apple deprecating AFP, it's is still faster and more stable than Apple's SMB support. I guess the Apple devs who made that stuff in the 90's knew what they were doing...
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pixl97 3061 days ago
> it's is still faster and more stable than Apple's SMB support.

Anything is faster and more stable than Apple's SMB support. MacOS is horribly slow and buggy with almost every modern NAS. Fixes include enabling SMB 1.0 (WTF?).

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zbentley 3061 days ago
Cross post from elsewhere on this thread:

Apple's SMB support does indeed suck, but if you need to use macs as SMB clients, tuning the SMB client config ("man nsmb.conf") can dramatically improve performance! It's night and day for me when I force a newer protocol, increase the cache size, turn off signing/verification (if acceptable given my network conditions), and increase the async read/write counts.

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