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IanSav
Nov 30, 2010Apprentice
4.1.7 Slow To Respond To SMB Network Discovery...
Hi, Since upgrading my DUO to 4.1.7 I have noticed that the DUO is *very* slow to respond SMB/SAMBA network share enumeration requests. It may take up to about a minute for the DUO to provide its ...
WSJ
Jul 23, 2011Tutor
sphardy wrote: Just speculating: the fact that restarting CIFS fixed the issue under 4.1.7 suggests the root cause was related to some change in the NAS boot sequence vs 4.1.6. Wouldn't be a big surprise if that boot sequence has perhaps again changed in 4.1.8 so avoiding the cause whatever it may have been.
I totally agree - the root cause of the issue was not found, but as a side-effect of other changes me might be lucky and the problem went away (similiar to how it was "introduced" with 4.1.7 - as a side-effect with unclear root cause). At least, Netgear is honest - they did not state that they have "fixed" the problem. Anyway - if the final version of 4.1.8. is also free of that bug, then that's a happy end. 8)
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