Why Mac so slow to browse network shares?

[HyperX13]

So on my Mac Pro, when I get into my NAS (linux based), the files take like 3 seconds to actually appear in the window after I click on the share. On my Windows 7 machine, that is next to the mac, on the same switch, takes not even a second, it's instant. I have always had an issue that the Mac is slow when browsing network shares. Even if it's another Mac. Any ideas why this is?

 

[Warcraft Tauren]

Word. It is slow, even browsing other Macs and it's probably because I have wireless.

tbh, you just have to live with it.

 

[lannister80]

Yep, it's just slow.

I have the same issue with NFS shares, HFS+ shares, it doesn't seem to matter. Sometimes it's really fast, but not usually.

 

[HyperX13]

Yeah but I am curious why? How can Microsoft get these things to open up so quick. Even Ubuntu is slow on network shares. I wonder what the magic sauce is?

 

[Transporteur]

I never experienced such a behaviour.
Browsing my shares (SMB and AFP) with both Gigabit ethernet and Airport is as fast as it should be.
No delays whatsoever.

 

[uaaerospace]

I have this problem occasionally at work. It doesn't always happen, but I haven't picked up the pattern or cause yet. It's almost like it must wait while the hard drive on the server spins up (but I know this isn't the case). Our XP and Vista machines are unaffected.

 

[Mal]

Are you running Snow Leopard? The Finder's network access was vastly improved in SL. If you are and are still having trouble, then I'm not really sure. There's a number of possibilities, but all fairly detailed and beyond my pay grade (some possibly that you couldn't work around).

jW

 

[uaaerospace]

Are you running Snow Leopard?

Yes, it occurs under SL; this also occurred on 10.5.x.

 

[ScoobyMcDoo]

Don't know if this will help or not, but I have noticed that even with local file display in finder, it's pathetically slow when in list view. If I switch to column view it's a bit more tolerable. Which view are you using?