Good day MacRumors viewers,
this is my first post here in this forum and i apologize for its length
Had the good luck to have some extra money and decided to buy a mac pro, octo 2.66 gHz processor, 16gb RAM, running snow leopard, and am very happy with my buy, except for one thing which i hope some one here can help me with
the computer is hooked up to my home network on which there is an ubuntu server that i use for file sharing (using samba), and opening up the shares on my other windows machines is no problem, everything runs really fast, but when it comes to opening these shares up in the finder, it takes a long time (longest time ive counted is 30 s now) and that is way too long when it opens instantly in windows.
Have even tried with muCommander(and other finder replacements) in mac to see if it was the mac there was a problem on, and in muCommander everything opened up close to instantly, so have isolated the problem to the finder, and don't want to have to rely on 3rd party finder alternatives
so my question is, is there anyway to make the finder load network drives faster, for example turn of files previews or something like that (have already turned off spotlight indexing on them, read in other forum that this could help), any ideas?
so thank you for anyone reading this long message and appreciate any help anyone can offer
Knutte
this is my first post here in this forum and i apologize for its length
Had the good luck to have some extra money and decided to buy a mac pro, octo 2.66 gHz processor, 16gb RAM, running snow leopard, and am very happy with my buy, except for one thing which i hope some one here can help me with
the computer is hooked up to my home network on which there is an ubuntu server that i use for file sharing (using samba), and opening up the shares on my other windows machines is no problem, everything runs really fast, but when it comes to opening these shares up in the finder, it takes a long time (longest time ive counted is 30 s now) and that is way too long when it opens instantly in windows.
Have even tried with muCommander(and other finder replacements) in mac to see if it was the mac there was a problem on, and in muCommander everything opened up close to instantly, so have isolated the problem to the finder, and don't want to have to rely on 3rd party finder alternatives
so my question is, is there anyway to make the finder load network drives faster, for example turn of files previews or something like that (have already turned off spotlight indexing on them, read in other forum that this could help), any ideas?
so thank you for anyone reading this long message and appreciate any help anyone can offer
Knutte