![]() ![]() However, you may find – as I did – that once you have connected to the shared folder, it takes a huge amount of time to list folders that contain a large number of files or subfolders (in my case, this was my photos backup folders). OS X can access these folders, by opening Finder and selecting Go -> Connect to server (or pressing Cmd-K) and typing smb://SERVER and selecting the shared folder. This is the ‘Windows File Sharing’ protocol, and is implemented using the Samba project on Linux. ![]() So, a bit of background: I have a file server at home which has some shared folders on it, shared using the SMB protocol. This is a very brief post to explain how I managed to speed up the viewing (that is, listing of files/directories) in Samba shares accessed via OS X. Robin's Blog How to: speed up viewing Samba network shares in OS X April 28, 2016 ![]()
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