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I’ll explain a bit more about our network and the settings on our Macs.
The Network is entirely CAT6 cabled with switches to suit. We have OS9, OSX with XP on the same domain. The OS9 and the OSX Macs just connect to the shares on the domain controller and the XP machines log on to the domain and work from there.
The OS9’s are connecting to the server via AppleTalk and seem to be running at a suitable speed while navigating the network shares without a problem.
The OSX machines are connecting via AFP on the DC’s IP address and are experiencing a long lag while first accessing a network folder.
I’m not sure who or where but I was advised to set the packet size to “1485” instead of the default “1500” on the OSX machines but could not tell you why this is. Regardless it seems to make no difference to the speed of the navigation of the network share.
I heard once that it could be a solution for the OSX system to cache the icons/thumbnails of the share after mounting the share, although depending on the amount of data on the share this could take a long time.
Connecting on SMB does speed up the navigation but this causes loss of program file linking and file icons to disappear, so it is not a realistic solution.
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