Samba shares vs. OS/2

[Don Guy]

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.

[Sjoerd Visser]

Post by Don Guy
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