I added the latest upstream Samba to my test 16.04 machine using these instructions:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/813171/latest-upstream-samba-on-ubuntu-16-04-how
This appears to have had no appreciable effect on the performance of this machine to read files with question marks in their paths.
(The "connect to server" method through Nautilus from my previous post also still works on this machine.)
I added the latest upstream Samba to my test 16.04 machine using these instructions:
http:// askubuntu. com/questions/ 813171/ latest- upstream- samba-on- ubuntu- 16-04-how
This appears to have had no appreciable effect on the performance of this machine to read files with question marks in their paths.
(The "connect to server" method through Nautilus from my previous post also still works on this machine.)