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I’ve finally got tired of how bad the latency and transfer speeds are when mounting my TrueNas SMB shares on my macbook. I looked online for some solutions, but didn’t really have much success with them. I managed to get to this command that seems to be a lot better:
mount_smbfs -o soft,nobrowse "//<username>@<domain or ip>/apps" "$HOME/mnt/apps"
where /mnt/apps is a directory that I created for myself. In this case I’m mounting a share called “apps”. For now it actually seems to be pretty responsive and loads directories and files at an acceptable speed.

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[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You can transfer files using rsync over SSH without needing to mount the drive which should give you better speeds.

[–] ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

oh that's good to know! I'll definitely try using rsync next time I need to move something over 🤞

[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

FYI you just replace the destination with username@IP:filelocation like this that I use to backup my laptop to my server

rsync -av --delete /home/me me@192.168.1.2:/srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx/Backups/PCs/Laptop/home

saving this comment. thank you!

[–] Damage@feddit.it -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why would rsync be faster? SSH traffic is encrypted, it's usually slower than normal file transfers

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

SMB is also encrypted

You don't want it any other way

[–] Mister_Hangman@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago
[–] MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno. I suspect it's the GUI file manager but don't know for certain.