AFP mount slooooow

[prg435]

I've been seeing this issue too and it's seemingly getting worse. I'm not sure what the QNAP engineers are doing, but it should be pretty obvious of the delay's customers are seeing if they simply tested this in a lab. Seems to me every new firmware release packs more and more features into it without properly addressing base functionality of the product.

It' time this company started realizing that their target market is home and small business verticals of which apple products make up a significant portion of the computing base. Large companies don't use QNAP to run their storage services.... they favor companies such as EMC.

Ergo, QNAP had better start supporting it's base customers better or it will be another casualty in the technology arena. Hire some protocol analysts, get out the sniffers, and start core functionality better. It's AFP not bleeding edge science!!!

[QNAPJason]

Hi prg435,
Sorry about the issue. We are working on a fix to improve the AFP connection speed in the upcoming 3.5.1

Jason

[jderosa3]

Thanks Jason. I look forward to getting the 3.5.1 update loaded on my 419. Appreciate the follow up - we didn't know what was going on.

[bulkathos]

Same issue for me,

My config :
TS110 3.5.0
mac mini late 2009, 4G ram +ssd, mac os 10.7.1
macbook late 2007, 4G ram + ssd, mac os 10.7.1

100m router, static ip for all devices, no firewall on the network

for all devices, afp authentification may take > 3 mins

[Claus_L]

Hi all...

Same problem for me too...VERY slow connecting from OS X Lion to Qnap TS-219P running firmware 3.5 using AFP. Connection to my iTunes and multimedia library is also very slow...but I guess that's related to the slow AFP connection too...

Just to let Qnap know that there's one more customer eagerly awaiting a firmware update...

...have been very happy with my NAS up till now tho

/Claus

[QNAPJason]

Hi Claus and all,
We expect to release 3.5.1 by next Monday.
It will reduce the AFP mount time to 1-2 seconds.
Thanks for waiting.

[bondskin]

Hi there,

Any good news regarding version 3.5.1 as I still cannot find it ?

Thanks
Mike

[QNAPJason]

Hi Mike,
The 3.5.1 official firmware is now released.
Intel based QNAP NAS

Marvell based QNAP NAS

[xavierh]

just installed the firmware on my devices... wow what a difference in the time to establish an appletalk connection between my ac and the nas...wow... Thanks QNAP

[jacobvanorder]

I just installed 3.5.1 and I'm getting the message from Finder of: "The version of the server you are trying to connect to is not supported. Please contact your system administrator to resolve the problem."

Any ideas?

[jacobvanorder]

I was able to resolve this by reinstalling 3.5.0 and then 3.5.1 again. Now works great!

[mungo2k]

Firmware update to 3.5.1 on all my 6 TS-809U-RP devices hasn't fixed this problem for me. Still very slow connection, which isn't surprising because when an AFP connection is made, the winbindd process uses 97-100% of the CPU (as shown in System Information and Resource Monitor). This doesn't occur with SMB connections, so there's obviously some bug in the process eating CPU power. As soon as I disconnect, the winbindd process goes away and back down to 1-2% CPU usage.

Any ideas, QNAP? I'm thinking that I'm going to have to turn the whole device into an iSCSI drive and manage it from a server, as I need AFP to work properly. That and the problem of Active Directory binding requiring a specific Domain Controller name, rather than just pointing to the farm...(and then losing all my share/folder security settings when I need to point it to a different Domain Controller during maintenance periods....).

[mji]

I have the same problem - my QNAP TS-210 with firmware version 3.5.1 Build 1002T is atrociously slow to connect to with my iMac (running MacOS X Lion 10.7.2). And by atrociously slow, I mean it typically takes between 30 seconds and a minute to connect. The NAS is currently connected to my iMac directly via the Ethernet port.

It did not take as long to connect via AFP when I used Snow Leopard (MacOS X 10.6.8 ), with the same Mac, same ethernet connection.

Interestingly, when I went to my home to visit family over christmas, the connection to my father's TS-210 with the same firmware version and same OS version on his MacBook Pro with the same MacOS X version was much faster to connect.

[schumaku]

Update to 3.5.2 - more AFP enhancements in place.

Does the direct Ethernet connection run on a different TCP/IP subnetwork than the likely WLAN connection to the WLAN/Internet?

[mji]

Yes, the ethernet connection runs of a different subnetwork (169.254.100.xxx) to the WiFi network (192.168.0.yyy) that I use for all other connections.

The settings (and the rest of the setup) were the same when I was running 10.6.8, when AFP mounting was much quicker.

I've been put off upgrading to 3.5.2 after reading shortarc's post on copy errors with AFP: viewtopic.php?f=30&t=53064