

The Mac laptop that was struggling I had tried multiple known fixes before this: Your only real way to speed it all up would be to get gigabit ethernet 1000Base-T. 500kb/s transfer is a reasonable expectation for large files, but small files will slow that down. Windows we see about 125MBps (essentially capping our gigabit Ethernet connections) to the storage nodes however on Mac, we barely see 50MBps. Windows (for obvious reasons) connects and performs extremely well using SMB. 100Base-T is 100Mb/s, not 100MB/s ie about 1/5 the speed of USB2. So we have a Isilon Storage Cluster, and both Windows and Mac Clients connecting to it. You can also try installing Samba instead of the MacOS implementation of SMB. ethernet speeds are measured in megabits not megabytes.

If it is not, try the guide that shows how to enable vfs_fruit module for Samba, I believe this is only useful if the server hosting the share is NOT a Mac as it enables better Mac compatibility for Samba.Open finder and your problem should be resolved. Save and close file (type “:wq” without quotes, then hit enter).
