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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:57:16 -0800
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Fred McFadden (Glasshouse)" <fredm@css.glasshouse.com>
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Subject: Re: Mac 10.5 issues on Cougar
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On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:42:29 -0800 "Fred McFadden (Glasshouse)"
<fredm@css.glasshouse.com> wrote:

> Mac 10.5 issues on Cougar
> 
> Case 11419
> 
> Customer reporting slow performance on MAC 10.5 clients on a Cougar. 
> I have requested some more information.
> 
> Are the same issues present on the Cougar, as the Bobcat version of
> EverON with regards to the code problems with smb/cifs on Apple MAC
> 10.5?
> 
> We are still waiting for Apple?

It's my recollection that we are, however, performance for me is quite
reasonable.  Know that I'm accessing over wifi-g, so max is going to be
2.5MiB/direction anyway.  What is slow is the authentication/setup step.
It actually hangs for several minutes, maybe 5, and then times out and
then succeeds.  But every time it needs to do that, you suffer the same
fate, so think about doing accesses that cross GNS boundries and so
forth, it would be a mess.  Not to mention that 5 minutes is a long
time to wait to get your share connected.  And multiply that times the
number of shares you need to connect.

NFS works reasonably well for me, once you figure out how to inform
your Mac that the default of orginating from an "unsecure" port is
quite braindead.  I realize many customers have a CIFS only
environment, which is reasonable, so NFS may not be an option.

Cheers,

a
