AFP server for Windows?

[alizee]

Anybody know of a good AFP server to use with Windows? SMB file-sharing on my Mac is annoyingly slow, even with some of the fixes I found online. I found one AFP server for enterprise that's $1000 and up, money I'm not willing to spend...

Thanks for the help!

 

[Emulex]

nfs is very fast. its free with windows servers; free client with xp/win7/etc.

 

[Nothinman]

Nothing about AFP is good, try to figure out why CIFS/SMB is so slow.

NFS is an option but the Windows NFS server from MS is a PITA and the NFS client sucks.

 

[Emulex]

smb is fast on windows, smb2 even faster. its your osx client that sucks. i remember trying to use smb over wifi on osx 10.5 - failed 99% of the time on large files. the same setup (wifi laptop, same range was 10% failure on same files). hell osx smb fails on ethernet still randomly usually long file moves (10-60 minute files).

here's the kicker - fire up fusion/parallels and the SMB on the apple went from 99% failure to 10% failure (!!) in the vm. problem solved.

osx smb just blows. kinda like osx RDP client (its faster to use a VM and windows RDP)

 

[alizee]

Thanks for the responses

smb is fast on windows, smb2 even faster. its your osx client that sucks.

That's why I'm trying to get an AFP server running on the Windows machine
Your workaround is to just use a VM for transferring to and from the other Windows box?

Nothing about AFP is good, try to figure out why CIFS/SMB is so slow.

I think this would be the most preferable option, by far. What's wrong with AFP? Works fine Mac to Mac, obviously. I imagine if there's a good server for Windows, I would be set. Otherwise, do you have any suggestions for where to start on SMB? After googling, I found some solutions that haven't worked for me:

This thread (among others) says to modify the Mac's ack-delay, which didn't resolve it. It also says a small bit about the DNS server.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=401868

Both machines are using the same DNS server (my Time Capsule) which, in turn, is using OpenDNS as it's DNS server. They're both using Static DHCP (Computers are set up to use DHCP, the Time Capsule gives out the address based on MAC address), and they both are on the same subnet. The Mac is running 10.6, the PC is WHS.

Next steps?

Thanks for the help!