Tried it from a terminal instead of Nautilus and I have the problem there too.
$ cd .gvfs/ /.gvfs$ ls myshare on winserver.domain.root /.gvfs/myshare on winserver.domain.root$ time ls (approx 700 directories and some files listed) real 0m13.319s user 0m0.012s sys 0m0.008s /.gvfs/myshare on winserver.domain.root$ time ls SomeDir (5 files and 5 directories listed) real 0m0.185s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.008s /.gvfs/myshare on winserver.domain.root$ time mkdir Testa real 0m0.089s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.004s -- Browsing smb share is painfully slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/259771 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs