JCIFS: file retrieval is too slow to be usable

Question

I was just testing JCIFS for accessing Windows shares. It is very slow to the point of being completely unusable.

import jcifs.smb.*;

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Answer 1

I found somewhere that SmbFileInputStream doesn't do its own buffering and hence the reason for being slow. Wrapping SmbFileInputStream in a BufferedInputStream solved the problem.

 SmbFile sFile = new SmbFile(path, authentication);

 BufferedInputStream buf = new BufferedInputStream(new SmbFileInputStream(sFile));