# Initial Experience Using Syncthing - CIFS/Samba Issues

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/initial-experience-using-syncthing-cifs-samba-issues/16027
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**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/initial-experience-using-syncthing-cifs-samba-issues/16027 "2020-12-17T16:07:34Z")
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### Author: ![imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/imsodin/32/3317_2.png) [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2020, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/initial-experience-using-syncthing-cifs-samba-issues/16027/2 "2020-12-17T16:32:39Z")

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Best solution, but I assume that’s not possible: Run Syncthing on NAS (2), i.e. on local storage, not a network drive of any kind.

For the specific issue here my post from the thread you linked should still be accurate:

> [@readdirent: no such file or directory](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/readdirent-no-such-file-or-directory/15950/10):
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> Also [https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40846](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40846) fixed in [https://github.com/golang/go/commit/6b420169d798c7ebe733487b56ea5c3fa4aab5ce](https://github.com/golang/go/commit/6b420169d798c7ebe733487b56ea5c3fa4aab5ce) which will be released in go1.16. And just for convenience the workaround env var is GODEBUG=asyncpreemptoff=1.

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