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...etwork shares are very poor if packet signing is required (the default on OS X since 10.11.something). Suggestions abound on the Internet that you can restore good throughput by disabling packet signing on the Mac. You do that by creating or editing the /etc/nsmb.conf file and adding: [default] require_signing=no Indeed, customers of my company's products have confirmed that disabling packet signing "makes Samba great again". The problem is, disabling packet signing seems to be an all or nothing proposition. If you disable it on OS X, apparently you can no longer connect to servers th...