HT200158 Connecting to older SMB servers in Mavericks

Have anyone got this work? I got Thomson router and FAT32 usb-drive connected into it and OS X is Mavericks.
There is a solution for this problem for OS X Lion (OS X Lion: Connecting to older SMB servers that do not support UNICODE or NT style commands), but I don't got it work in Mavericks.

Found a way for preXP Samba sharing to work.
Download & Install Oracle's Virtual Box.
Setup a Windows XP virtual machine.
(select the appropriate network and sharing settings)
Install Windows XP SP3 onto the virtual machine (you'll need a valid licence key).
And that's it.
I run a virtual box version of Windows XP on Mavericks every time I want to connect to an older Samba share.
It just works.
I have my Mac OS hard drive setup to be shared with the virtual Windows XP machine, so I can drag and drop anything from the Samba share to my Mac hard drive and vice versa, within the emulated windows environment.
I would have loved to run a virtual Snow Leopard instead of Windows XP, but couldn't get it booting correctly, =S. So went with XP instead. Simple, =).

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HT200158 Connecting to older SMB servers from Mountain Lion

Lion had depreacated support to older SMB servers. I get following error on trying to do that:
The version of the server you are trying to connect to is not supported. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the problem.
But I could still connect using the workaround given in the knowledge base article.
sudo sysctl -w net.smb.fs.kern_deprecatePreXPServers=0
HT4697: OS X Lion: Connecting to older SMB servers that do not support UNICODE or NT style commands
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4697
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When I tried sysctl -a | grep smb, I only see following options.
net.smb.fs.version: 107000
net.smb.fs.loglevel: 0
net.smb.fs.kern_deadtimer: 60
net.smb.fs.kern_hard_deadtimer: 600
net.smb.fs.kern_soft_deadtimer: 30
net.smb.fs.tcpsndbuf: 261120
net.smb.fs.tcprcvbuf: 261120
There is no option about net.smb.fs.kern_deprecatePreXPServers.

Found a way for preXP Samba sharing to work.
Download & Install Oracle's Virtual Box.
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It just works.
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I would have loved to run a virtual Snow Leopard instead of Windows XP, but couldn't get it booting correctly, =S. So went with XP instead. Simple, =).

Connecting to smb servers

Will Yosemite address the Mavericks problem in connecting to smb servers?

We have this problem in our office too. Have talked to apple support, microsoft support, two different IT consulting companies, and multiple "techy" friends of the company - all to no avail. Most seem to say the same thing "there's nothing wrong with your connection" - I suppose because technically it can still connect to the server. But yes it IS a real PROBLEM! So here's the specifics on our end:
MS Server 2012 - Multi volume/drive server managed by IT consultant, all service packs, patches, yada yada, etc. installed and functioning
To connect (mount) - In finder, use command K to connect to server. Address: smb://XXX.XXX.X.XX/Volume Name
Enter credentials for access
Spinning Wheel
Eventually volume mounts.
Try to open a folder - folder content empty.
Wait 10 minutes or so, folder content populates.
Open sub-folder
folder content empty.
Wait 10 minutes or so, folder content populates.
and so on.
Also drops connection completely if the screen saver comes on - then you have to start the process over.
This was not how the system behaved previous to Mavericks update.
Workarounds we have tried:
Use cifs instead of smb - a bit faster but connection is still lost on sleep and folders still take a long time to populate.
Use 3rd Party app like Pathfinder - works much better but really?! I have to pay $40 per user to do something the OS should already be doing at a basic minimum!
Specify port 139 - trying this now - seems a bit faster but too soon to tell.
Bottom line - I really hope this is addressed in Yosemite too - otherwise I'm going to wipe my system and go back to an earlier OS version. fun.

SMB writing Speeds (Mavericks 10.9.5, Server 3.2.2)

Hello all,
In our network we have a vast majority of Mac based machines, primarily Mt. Lion, but a good handful of Mavericks clients and a few Yosemite clients now as well. We also have a few Windows based machines that freelancers use.
Our server is a 2012 Mac Mini with 2 SSDs and it's connected to the network over a 1 Gb connection. It's running 10.9.5 with server 3.2.2. Also, our server has been optimized following the instructions at http://rolande.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/performance-tuning-the-network-stack-on- mac-os-x-part-2/
We've always used AFP as our file sharing protocol for our Macs and SMB for the PCs, however, with the Mavericks clients (all running 10.9.5) it's my understanding that unless a user uses the "Connect To Server" dialog and connects via the AFP protocol, Mavericks will default to SMB2. Our Mavericks clients have always reported issues when they use the Bonjour listing to connect to the server (because I believe it's defaulting to SMB) so we've forced them to connect via AFP using the "Connect to Server" option in find.. I've also seen numerous posts about how unreliable SMB was when Mavericks first launched.
I finally had some time, so I decided to do a speed test comparison between AFP, SMB, and CIFS (what most of the SMB posts recommend using to connect to SMB shares) protocols. To do this, I used a perl script that I obtained from http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=168289 with a 243MB file. The client I used was my Yosemite test machine, running 10.10 final release, as I wanted to see if the SMB protocol updates in Yosemite cleared things up. In my tests I both wrote to the server and saved a local copy of the file to my desktop from the server using all three protocols. My data is below, but suffice it to say, it shows a drastic speed differential when writing to the Mavericks Server.
When writing to the server, AFP had an average write rate of 10620.8 KB/s (transfer time of 22.66 sec), SMB had an average of 2430.9 KB/s (transfer time of 98.05 sec), and CIFS had an average of 2422.0 KB/s (transfer time of 98.40 sec). The difference between SMB and CIFS was negligible (as one would expect), but the AFP speed was almost 4.5x faster.
When writing the file from the server to my desktop, AFP had an average write rate of 948575.9 KB/s (transfer time of 22.38 sec), SMB had an average of 815190.8 KB/s (transfer time of 23.92 sec), and CIFS had an average of 574321.2 KB/s (transfer time of 29.19 sec). Again the AFP was faster, but barely so, but both SMB and CIFS speeds drastically increased.
My question is, has any one been able to optimize settings on the Server to increase the speed at which it can receive SMB files? Ideally I would love to figure out a way to get transfer speeds to the server over SMB closer to those of AFP or even the transfer from speeds over SMB. If this is possible, I would consider dropping the AFP protocol entirely and moving systems over to SMB, as many of our systems will be upgraded to Yosemite in the coming months.
Thanks for your thoughts!
Data from tests:
AFP:
WRITING TO SERVER
22.66 s: 243138560 bytes (read:1877171.0 KB/s write:2218474.8 KB/s copy:1016801.0 KB/s)
22.66 s: 243141593 bytes (read:185420.4 KB/s write:2484633.6 KB/s copy:172544.0 KB/s)
23.40 s: files are closed
Peak read rate: 2375535.0 KB/s
Peak write rate: 2484633.6 KB/s
Peak copy rate: 1162058.3 KB/s
Average read rate:     773099.2 KB/s
Average write rate:     10620.8 KB/s
Average transfer rate: 10147.4 KB/s
WRITING TO DESKTOP FROM SERVER
22.38 s: 243138560 bytes (read:1636801.6 KB/s write:1362616.5 KB/s copy:743588.5 KB/s)
22.38 s: 243141593 bytes (read:157255.3 KB/s copy:157255.3 KB/s)
22.40 s: files are closed
Peak read rate: 1945184.5 KB/s
Peak write rate: 1483068.8 KB/s
Peak copy rate: 820903.5 KB/s
Average read rate:      10729.5 KB/s
Average write rate:    948575.9 KB/s
Average transfer rate: 10599.7 KB/s
smb:
WRITING TO SERVER
98.05 s: 243138560 bytes (read:831069.5 KB/s write:2260.7 KB/s copy:2254.5 KB/s)
98.05 s: 243141593 bytes (read:37532.2 KB/s write:3105792.0 KB/s copy:37084.1 KB/s)
98.11 s: files are closed
Peak read rate: 1231355.3 KB/s
Peak write rate: 3105792.0 KB/s
Peak copy rate:   37084.1 KB/s
Average read rate:     637277.9 KB/s
Average write rate:      2430.9 KB/s
Average transfer rate:   2420.3 KB/s
WRITING TO DESKTOP FROM SERVER
23.88 s: 243138560 bytes (read:1945184.5 KB/s write:1335499.8 KB/s copy:791845.0 KB/s)
23.88 s: 243141593 bytes (read:163462.7 KB/s copy:163462.7 KB/s)
23.92 s: files are closed
Peak read rate: 2130440.1 KB/s
Peak write rate: 1491308.1 KB/s
Peak copy rate: 854890.0 KB/s
Average read rate:      10065.8 KB/s
Average write rate:    815190.8 KB/s
Average transfer rate:   9926.8 KB/s
CIFS:
WRITING TO SERVER
98.40 s: 243138560 bytes (read:639132.0 KB/s write:2710.9 KB/s copy:2699.5 KB/s)
98.40 s: 243141593 bytes (read:49298.3 KB/s write:3105792.0 KB/s copy:48528.0 KB/s)
98.46 s: files are closed
Peak read rate: 1203746.4 KB/s
Peak write rate: 3105792.0 KB/s
Peak copy rate:   48528.0 KB/s
Average read rate:     648413.5 KB/s
Average write rate:      2422.0 KB/s
Average transfer rate:   2411.5 KB/s
WRITING TO DESKTOP FROM SERVER
29.14 s: 243138560 bytes (read:1931190.3 KB/s write:1362616.5 KB/s copy:798915.0 KB/s)
29.14 s: 243141593 bytes (read:165642.2 KB/s copy:165642.2 KB/s)
29.19 s: files are closed
Peak read rate: 2130440.1 KB/s
Peak write rate: 1491308.1 KB/s
Peak copy rate: 854890.0 KB/s
Average read rate:       8266.5 KB/s
Average write rate:    574321.2 KB/s
Average transfer rate:   8135.3 KB/s

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