[kabes]

So. I don't know if it's a samba thing, an ubuntu thing, a gnome thing, or yet another thing. But accessing smb folders with a large amount of files is waaaay slower with Ubuntu than with windows. Also: will we ever get thumbnails?

[squarefoot]

It could very likely be Gnome. I would try accessing the same smb folders using a different desktop environment and file manager (eg. Thunar under XFCE, etc). The fastest one I'm aware of out there is Rox Filer which is already available on many distros and can be used in place of the stock one, but as far as I can tell it doesn't know anything about network shares, that is, it won't mount the share when the relevant mount point is accessed, the user has to provide an already mounted directory or implement automount. That's the price to pay for something that is like orders of magnitude faster than most used file managers.

https://github.com/rox-desktop/rox-filer

[yeuxardents]

Theres a really good rant/writeup about thumbnails and gnome/linux.

https://randthoughts.github.io/little-rant-about-gnomes-file...

[iguessthislldo]

Isn't there a setting in nautilus for the thumbnails? I can't test it at the moment unfortunately as my server's SSD died recently and I haven't set up samba again. I remember it working, but being slow depending on the type of file. I guessed at the time some files seemed to need to read the entire file first.