Poor SMB Performance - MacOS — by Catweasel, OliverT and others on Level1Techs Forums

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A thread about slow folder listings and Finder lockups on a TrueNAS SMB share from a Mac (file transfer speed itself was reported as fine). One answer replaces /etc/nsmb.conf with settings such as streams=yes and notify_off=yes and sets DSDontWriteNetworkStores to stop .DS_Store files on network shares; another suggests SMB Multichannel and the TrueNAS Apple-style character encoding option. Edit system config files carefully and note these are community tweaks, not Apple guidance.

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Source: Poor SMB Performance - MacOS by Catweasel, OliverT and others on Level1Techs Forums. Licence: Link only (©).

Source reviewed: 2026-11-02
Link checked: 2026-11-02
Tested hands-on: Not by Oddbyte.Me

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