For a while now, I've found the performance of Samba when being browsed by a OSX client to be really painful. For example, when opening a network folder on my macbook, it can take several seconds to get a directory listing. Whereas, on Windows it's pretty close to instantaneous. A number of online forums suggest the issue is with OSX Mavericks and SMB1, so it's recommended to push samba to use SMB2. So I added the follow;
min protocol = SMB2
... to my config. I suddenly found a HUGE leap in performance on my Macbook. Only problem is that my Windows 7 desktop can't access anything. I was under the impression that W7 supports SMB2?? If I change the setting to;
max protocol = SMB2
... Windows starts working again. But I seem to lose the performance gain on my Macbook.
Am I missing something?