
Apple os x server file sharing mac os x#
I enabled NFS Server for Windows Server and mounted on a Mac OS X client. I ran tcpdump during the write to capture the communications.Please excuse the lack of formatting - I cannot seem to back tick escape this block: I mounted a share and used dd to read /dev/random and write a 1GB text file to the share. There is slight alleviation of the listing/traversal performance, but it is still unacceptably slow. We have also installed Thursby DAVE for testing. We have tried forcing the OS X Clients to use SMBv1 and CIFS, as opposed to the newer SMBX/SMB2 implementation. There appears to be a significant asymmetry in read/write performance where write performance is significantly slower. Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks clients experience abysmal performance including: slow directory listing, traversal, file reads, and file writes. Windows 7 users experience performance within expectations. All machines are on the same physical and logical gigabit LAN. The client side environment is a mix of Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks machines.

The other domain controller is a Windows 2003 Server.

The server is doing file services and is an Active Directory Domain Controller (one of two for the domain).
Apple os x server file sharing for mac os x#
I am inheriting a Windows 2012 R2 Server that is experiencing abysmal SMB/CIFS performance for Mac OS X Clients in particular.
