Samba client in Fedora Core 3 is slow

[Timothy Ha]

I have a no-domain network with some Mac OS X stations, some PC and I am 
using FC3 to access the shares. In a fresh installation of FC3, I see 
that browsing the shares through Computer / Network /Windows network 
/... or in Nautilus directly though smb:///... is very slow. I thought 
it might be IPv6 or DNS problem, so I switched IPv6 off, with no progress.

FTP access to the same Mac OS X machine's shares give big speed, as 
required. But Samba is too slow... Even giving a list of files is a slow 
process. All shares use login/password. Is there any problem with 
encrypted or not encrypted passwords?

Timothy.