Do any of you have access to that samba server and can check if it is suffering from a high load or millions of smbd processes or something? http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-vfs-list/2006-March/msg00048.html could be related.
** Changed in: gnome-vfs2 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Needs Info -- smb access almost unusable slow in Dapper compared to Breezy https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/34203 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs