Slow Folder View When Mounting to Windows Share

I'm an intern at an educational institute and we have a graphics lab that has access to a large windows share. They use the share for storing large picture files primarily. Only individuals in certain classes have access to the drive and each student has their individual folder. Graphics shares this share with cad students so the share is called CADShare
On a windows machine when the student connects the only folder that is seen is their own which is folder name = 'firstname.lastname'
On a mac it seems to load every students folder within the share (around 400 students maybe?) and then pull every folder that it populated until the only one seen is the one you have permissions to. It will behave slightly different depending on the folder view.
If the folder is being viewed in list or detail view it will populate/unpopulate instantly and will cause the machine to 'hang' while it's doing this. But if the folder is in folder view it will only populate the full amount of folders. If you click on a folder that is supposed to be hidden it will then unpopulate that folder.
This is becoming an issue for students trying to save and access files in Adobe cs2 but it seems to be more of a problem with the finder than it is with Adobe.
Is there a way to change view settings to be more friendly to windows shares for it not to lag this much when viewing or has anyone seen anything like this?
Any thoughts or solutions would be helpful :]
Message was edited by: mcc_helpdesk

We've tried something similar to that, they actually connect using afp rather than smb?
But we've tried connecting:
afp://server/CADShare/firstname.lastname/
and
afp://server/CADShare/firstname.lastname/
It seems to connect to their share directly but it still mounts CADShare so when students browse for files through an application, for example the graphics students are using the "place" command, they experience that lag because of the volume of folders.
It seems like it might just be something our network guy should handle by either making each students folder an individual share or nesting the folders by class or instructor.
Thanks so far though, any other ideas?

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