Perhaps its because the mapped drives are allready connected and authenticated, when you open a UNC share it has to login (if it isnt allready) then open a connection to what your trying to get to, or ...
Hello. Ive just optimized a clients OS X Servers's SMB config, and am able to get nice fast speeds off of an XP Sp2 box (after tuning TCP). <BR><BR>If I browse to \\10.0.0.x\ShareName\ via Explorer on ...