Slow transfer speeds between Mac Pro and Shared Drive on Windows Domain

Hi Guys,
Getting really slow transfer speeds when I try and transfer a file from a Mac Pro to a shared network drive on one of our Windows 2003 Servers.
The Mac Pro is logged on to windows domain. This data is transferring via our hard network, not via wireless. Not having any other transfer speed issues on any other PC's.
For example an 8mb file took around 45 mins.
Hope you can help. Many Thanks.

I saw this at a site where they were using DFS with Server 2003. When the few Mac's they had connected to the actual server and uploaded the file it was okay. But when it was sending the file via the \\DFS_node\share_name the Mac took heaps longer for the same file. Watching the Activity Monitor > Network monitor you could see gaps with the data transfer, as if there was some pausing between packets. A pcap showed that there was constant DNS requests coming from the Mac, even after the connection to the share was made. The same wasn't happening when the connection via SMB was directly to the actual file server. As there was only a few Mac on site they left it with the direct connection but were getting an MS specialist in to look at it. Never heard what happened with that one but you may want to try monitoring the packet transfer to see if the data movement is contstant or breaking. I'd also recommend getting Wireshark to monitor the transfer. You can compare upload to download and maybe even the transfer from the Mac to an MS workgroup share.

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Error code: 0x0000000000000000
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 5 sec
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Anonymous UUID:                    3C5AA43F-D876-4F9D-A831-D8043218C6E0
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RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff8000000000, RCX: 0x0000000001000000, RDX: 0xffffff8013ae9200
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R8: 0x0000000000000001, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x0000000000000000, R11: 0x0000000000000000
R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0xffffff8016207008, R14: 0xffffff8015a228f8, R15: 0x0000000000000000
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0xffffff80de173d90 : 0xffffff80002e3f4a
0xffffff80de173da0 : 0xffffff7f815c6b54
0xffffff80de173ed0 : 0xffffff80002524fe
0xffffff80de173f00 : 0xffffff8000478c7f
0xffffff80de173f40 : 0xffffff7f8159b158
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Gaming, Maya, After Effects, Nuke, Photoshop, Boujou, Realflow, 3DS Max (soon)
Most of the time working with heavy 3D and Videos.
I wanted to buy other 4GB Ram, and a Quadro 4000 (but its for Mac pro).
My idea was (or still is) to buy a Mac Pro and expand my iMac capacity (processors, Ram, etc, but no one has answered me if i can do that), or else I was thinking if I can buy the Mac Pro and transfer my iMac stuff to it, then use the iMac monitor as a display of the Mac pro just while the iMac sells and then just buy a monitor (but again, no one has answered me if I can do that too)
Please solve my questions

Extend the distance between Mac Pro and display

I'd like to know how to extend the distance between my Mac Pro and its Cinema Display. The Mac is early 2008 as is its display I think. I need a distance of about 5metres.

yes-get a DVI Dual Link Extension cable M/F or M/M. I think you can get 'em around 25 feet max. then you'd need a gender changer, maybe......
depends what you want to pay, though.*cough* monoprice*cough*
just my opinion
J.B.

Slow transfer speeds between two macs

The general setup: an iMac Intel 20" and an iBook G4 1,2GHz connected via an Airport Express (newest edition), both computers running 10.4.7.
When trying to transfer files via AFP between the two on my local network, I get "tremendous" speeds of about 0.5-1 MB/sec. Why is this so incredibly slow? Is it because of encryption or something similar? I can download off the internet with greater speed than that!

i have exactly the same problem , using a macbook black g1 . slow network speeds and flakey internet . these were ok when I first got the machine . but are now slow as . using the network view of menumeters I see that if i try and shift files from my mac mini they are incredibly slow with menumeters show 0.0kb/s for seconds at a time .
to trouble shoot this problem I used another friends macbook configured with exactly the same settings on this network and the transfer speeds were as they should be which was about 1.5-2.5 megs/sec .
so i figure there is some preference corrupted but which one ?
I have experienced several crashes recently . because of the overheating bug I have the fix applied to my machine and the firmware update . Maybe the network preference got corrupted at that point .
any tips as to which preference to delete would be appreciated .

Very slow transfer speed between 2 computers in the same network

I recently bought a new laptop (Lenove G510) with win 8.1 pre-installed.
When i download files of the internet, my speed is ok, for wireless, but when tranfering files between computers (The other computer is a win 7), the transfer speed is really slow (2-4 MB/s). The transfers takes forever, and are relly unstable. It bounces from 1 - 4 Mb/s all the time and will not stabilize.
The same applys when streaming to other devices (Media Center). The video being streamd will just go frame by frame, and it is no fun watching...
Why is my transfer speed in local networsk so slow?? How can i fix this?
I use AVG Anitvirus, and I have tried disabeling it before transer, whitout results...
I have also updated BIOS, Chipset and the driver for the wireless network card...
I can also mention that when I turn my computer on, the internet connection is lost to all other devices... I then need to reset the router, and then the connection is fine again. This was never a problem before I got Windows 8.1, and is not a problem while the computer is turned of.
In advanced, thansk for any replys/tips
Regars, Morten

Just to be sure it's set up properly, please work through the steps on this page:
http://homepage.mac.com/rfwilmut/notes/sharing.html

Very slow transfer speeds with Airport Extreme and MacBook

I have been using a new Airport Extreme without problem at my home for the past six weeks. The speed and range was excellent with both my MacBook Pro and the MacBook which I purchased a few weeks ago. I came out to Greece with both laptops and a new AP Extreme box for my home network here. After set up I noticed that internet access was lethargic on the MacBook and file transfer between the two computers was extremely slow. The problem seems to be with the new MacBook (although it was working well in London). I've done some speed tests and the internet download speed is only 48 kpbs! I also notice that the range is very poor--in the room next to the router I am down to five bars. If I connect to the AP Extreme with cable I get the full 1Mbps I would normally expect here in Athens (ADSL nominal 2Mbps). The MacBook Pro has no problems with wireless access speeds or range, so I am assuming this has to be a problem with the AP extreme card in the MacBook. Is there anything I have overlooked? Perhaps something to do with setting up the new AP Extreme here in Athens?

By process of elimination I realised that the only cause of the sudden slowness must be software that I had installed recently. The only software I had added was a wifi utility to detect available networks--open or protected. Unlikely as it sounds, quitting the utility (which I had set to load on startup) made a dramatic improvement in performance.

Slow wireless speeds on Mac Pro, but only downloads???

I have an "early 2009" quad-core Mac Pro. I also have a Macbook Pro that's a couple of years old. I'm running speedtest.net, with the laptop sitting on top of the Pro. My wireless setup is a several-year-old Airport Extreme base station hard-wired to the Verizon router.
My FiOS speed is 25/15, and that is generally what the laptop gets. When I first started this saga, the Mac Pro was getting about 4/12 on wireless (it is just as fast as the laptop if I hard-wire it). The laptop is also able to see about twice as many wireless networks as the Pro.
I have had the Pro in to the Genius Bar 3 times over the last couple of weeks. I give them credit for trying really hard; they say it actually has better wireless speeds in their store than one of their own Mac Pros, so they are chasing a problem they can't reproduce. The main thing they have done so far is replace the Airport card, which improved my results to about 9/17, but here we seem to be stuck. At this point the store has done everything they can think of, and all they can offer is to give me the names of some Apple certified techs who can come out to my home office (for a fee, of course) and try to trouble-shoot it here.
What I find most perplexing about this is that it's only download speed. I would think if there was some sort of interference, which is what they are thinking, it would affect both. And it would affect the laptop too.
I have a brand-new Airport base station that I will try setting up, but I don't have high hopes. I can also try upgrading to Snow Leopard, but that is a big time sink that I'm not quite ready for yet (I like to do a full install when I upgrade).
Does anyone have any other suggestions or tips on where else to research this?
Thanks in advance!

I saw this at a site where they were using DFS with Server 2003. When the few Mac's they had connected to the actual server and uploaded the file it was okay. But when it was sending the file via the \\DFS_node\share_name the Mac took heaps longer for the same file. Watching the Activity Monitor > Network monitor you could see gaps with the data transfer, as if there was some pausing between packets. A pcap showed that there was constant DNS requests coming from the Mac, even after the connection to the share was made. The same wasn't happening when the connection via SMB was directly to the actual file server. As there was only a few Mac on site they left it with the direct connection but were getting an MS specialist in to look at it. Never heard what happened with that one but you may want to try monitoring the packet transfer to see if the data movement is contstant or breaking. I'd also recommend getting Wireshark to monitor the transfer. You can compare upload to download and maybe even the transfer from the Mac to an MS workgroup share.

AirDrop between Mac Pro and Iphone 6 not working

Dear Team,
I have been using Mac Pro since Late Dec 2012. My version of Mac is Mac book Pro (13 Inch, late 2011) with Yosemite 10.10.3 version. I have recently bought iphone 6 ios (8.3).My Mac is not providing me an option for "Allow me to be discovered by". I have searched all my setting, I could see any option.
Please help me and suggest.
Regards,
Faiz

This
Mac Basics: AirDrop lets you send files from your Mac to nearby Macs and iOS devices - Apple Support
includes
In order to transfer files between a Mac and and an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch
your iOS device needs to include a lightning connector
your iOS device needs iOS 7 or later installed
your Mac needs to be a 2012 or later model with OS X Yosemite installed
Your Mac and iOS device both need bluetooth and Wi-Fi turned on. You do not have to be connected to a specific Wi-Fi network.

Icloud sync only works between mac pro and windows outlook, not with iphone and ipad anymore

Hi
Can anyone help me with my problem?
I do have icloud installed on my MacBookPro, on my Windows Outlook computer, on my iPad 2 and on the iPhone 4S.
Now until yesterday everything synchronized perfectly well.
Then I created some groups on my MacBookPro address book and since then (I believe that was when it started) icloud no longer synchs from and to the ipad and the iphone. It still works between the Mac and Windows Outlook.
On the iPad/iPhone I have tried everything but it still won't do. I have even reset the whole iPad and obviously lost all data and tried again. I all sometimes get is a few contacts back into the address book on the ipad. But only a limited number, not all.
Also, to delete the icloud account on the ipad/iphone is sometimes not possible. It just hangs and I can see the message "Deleting..." for ever.
Anyone an idea?
Thanks in advance!

One more comment. Wired connection seem to be stable neither. I have ping running to the Windows computer and after a couple of minutes, it gets broken.
However if I have both WiFi and cable connection to the home router and disconnect from cable (after ping is broken), I get the network to the Windows comptuer back. Nothing serious on the network change, I just get 192.168.1.x instead of 192.168.1.y as IP).
During this network switch I do nothing with the Windows computer.
This is not valid if I want to connect to the Windows computer via Microsoft sharing (smb://192.168.1.x), then it immediately breaks the connection. Can't get it back until Windows is restarted.
Getting lost...

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