Speed up MBWE Connection

[xanbkn]

Hi;
I just bought a new WD MyBook World Edition 1TB and hooked it up to my windows 7. we're dual-booting with ubuntu (eventually hoping to VM windows) and i need to connenct to the mbwe. after hours of googling, i added this to /etc/fstab:

//XXX.XXX.X.X/Public /mnt/Public nfs guest,_netdev 0 0

when i access my files on the mbwe it is superslow. i need help speeding the connection up. any help?

[Mudgen]

Not familiar with doing it as you are, but it looks like Windows 7 would be providing an NFS gateway, and I wouldn't be surprised if that's a kludgy mess. You might have better luck using "mount -t cifs" and let Windows just present it as a standard share and Linux handle it that way natively. You need samba-client installed to do this type of mount.

Of course, "superslow" is not a very quantitative measurement. What kind of speed are you getting?