My experience with CIFS on Mac was constant frustration, mostly due to issues with their implementation of SMB. Apparently, it is less bad if you force SMB1.0 on everything. That said, I wasn't using Netapp CIFS shares.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson@esri.com> wrote:

On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 04:00:13PM -0400, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Performance when accessing netapp CIFS shares from a Mac is frustrating,
> and in some cases downright unusable.
>
> It seems mostly related to OS X's desire to index everything with
> Spotlight. Directory listings are slow, and if you're any way distant
> from the netapp, you'll find latency makes it completely unusable.
>
> Have any of you found how to deal with this?
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan

What sort of issues are you encountering? We do CIFS shares to Macs
here and haven't had complaints. Still 7-mode. Don't believe we have
any fancy settings (SMBv2 enabled, larger TCP window size, etc.)

Ray

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