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I also have had problems browsing on mac over samba my rn102 nas. so i did some wireshark tracing, and I can definitely say, that is Apples problem, not Netgears. You see, all other network clients on my network, such as Windows or Linux/Android have no time problems to open huge folders... But not so on Mac. So if you try to open a folder with Finder, this damm things asks not only the list of file from server, but try to opens every one of them! I could not understand why, but this is a Finders issue. Try "ls" on same folder in terminal (from Mac /volumes/..) and you will get the list of files as soon as on the windows machine!
On the other side, i have never problems to open huge files, only to browse into folders....
Thanks for that.
I have accessed both macs remotely this evening and tried all the different protocols. All the same. I even tried different DNS settings as I wondered if it was trying to resolve the folder on the internet but its not that.
What I have discovered is that it will take 1 to 2 minutes to open a folder in the main artwork folder but then next time you go into that same folder its instant, like it remembered what was in it. Click on the next one and its back to taking ages again.
It only seems to be the main artwork folder as well where there are hundreds of folders and sub folders. So yes a large folder!
I copied one folder into a new test folder and it opened that one straight away.
Any further ideas?
I have started tackling this problem from the Apple end and it seems there is a known bug in Finder in OSX. I posted about it here. http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/1410993-apple-imac-and-netgear-readynas-102-problem?page=1#entry-5447219
There is a post by David CSG where he links to page 4 of this thread
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