10.6.8 Slow SMB browsing of Windows Servers 2008

MY IMAC 21 .5 Inch MAC OS X 10.6.8 slow SMB browsing of windows Server 2008 kindly anybody have any idea why its happened or after LION release maybe this issue will be solve.

Hehe... Servers are tricky things for sure.
It sounds like you're expecting to have users log in from outside your network, but that you're testing from within? Is this the case?
If your users are trying to log in from outside the local network of the server, then you'll need to ensure that the correct port forwarding is set up on your firewall.
Next thing I'd try... Simplify your share to ensure that the problem isn't with your group set up. Eliminate all the ACL's associated with it.
Add one sole user to the ACL, give it read and write, and try to log in using that credential.
Ensure that the POSIX Permissions are set to default. (administrator should be the owner, staff should be group, read and writable only by the owner, everyone else gets read only)
If that works, remove that user, add a group to the ACL and try and log in using a user that's listed in the new group specified.
Perhaps if you supplied a little more info about your server and how it's connected to it's network. What it's roles are etc. we might be able to give a little more insight.
HTH
-Graham

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