Fixing Slow Macos Finder Samba
date
Mar 4, 2017
slug
fixing-macos-samba
status
Published
tags
Tech
summary
type
Post
As a bonus, this will also enable searching on Samba too.
Problem
I have a external HDD plugged into a Raspi which acts as a seed box of some kind. The files are served with Samba. The problem was:
- Listing large amount of file in a directory takes ages.
- Search doesn’t work at all, it just got stuck at “Searching”.
- Transfer speed was very slow.
Solution
After much searching, the fix is quite simple actually.
First, SSH into the server with
$ ssh serverIpThen edit the Samba config by typing
$ vim /etc/samba/smb.confOnce it is open add these lines to your particularly slow Samba shares:
vfs objects = fruit
fruit:aapl = yes
fruit:encoding = native
fruit:locking = none
fruit:metadata = stream
fruit:resource = file
Lastly restart the server with
$sudo service smbd restartResult
Now the listing large directory should be pretty fast, search should work as normal and transfer speed should be around 10x faster.