Poor Samba performance after migrating clients from Windows XP to Windows 7
Issue
After migrating our desktop clients from Windows XP to Windows 7, we are experiencing very poor performance when reading files from a Samba share. The problem is particularly evident with .exe files. With Windows XP we loaded a specific application from a share in about 10 seconds. When using Windows 7 the elapsed time is 100 seconds.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Samba 3x
- Windows 7
- Beyond Trust Powerbroker Desktop Client 5.2.x
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