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dsc106
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So I've been messing around with my Homebrew NAS setup for a little bit now. I started on Ubuntu + Webmin, which was working well for everything. I switched some stuff around and had to reformat, and decided to give WinXP pro a shot since I had a spare copy laying around, and to be honest, Linux makes me head hurt 
Overall, the XP experience has been better and easier for my needs. In fact, my transfer speeds are even faster now in Windows to Windows transfers! From XP Pro SP3 to Vista SP1 I managed to get 60+ mb/s on a large file transfer!
HOWEVER...
Sharing with my Mac systems got noticeably slower. It works, but bringing up the directory takes a few seconds, and everytime I click a folder, it takes a few seconds to load the content. Streaming video files used to work fine, now it pauses for a brief second once every ~10 seconds. Under Ubuntu+webmin, my Mac file sharing experience was much better.
Previously, I had been using Samba file sharing through Ubuntu/Webmin with NTFS formatted disks. Now I am using Windows File Sharing using NTFS formatted disks through XP, and the Macs don't seem to like this as much :/
Any ideas or suggestions that don't involve switching back to Ubuntu?

Overall, the XP experience has been better and easier for my needs. In fact, my transfer speeds are even faster now in Windows to Windows transfers! From XP Pro SP3 to Vista SP1 I managed to get 60+ mb/s on a large file transfer!
HOWEVER...
Sharing with my Mac systems got noticeably slower. It works, but bringing up the directory takes a few seconds, and everytime I click a folder, it takes a few seconds to load the content. Streaming video files used to work fine, now it pauses for a brief second once every ~10 seconds. Under Ubuntu+webmin, my Mac file sharing experience was much better.
Previously, I had been using Samba file sharing through Ubuntu/Webmin with NTFS formatted disks. Now I am using Windows File Sharing using NTFS formatted disks through XP, and the Macs don't seem to like this as much :/
Any ideas or suggestions that don't involve switching back to Ubuntu?