diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 35e317d0..07cbb2f0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1115,12 +1115,12 @@ some **BIG WARNINGS** specific to SMB/CIFS, in decreasing importance:
   * [shadowing](#shadowing) probably works as expected but no guarantees
 
 and some minor issues,
-* clients only see the first ~400 files in big folders; [impacket#1433](https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket/issues/1433)
+* clients only see the first ~400 files in big folders;
+  * this was originally due to [impacket#1433](https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket/issues/1433) which was fixed in impacket-0.12, so you can disable the workaround with `--smb-nwa-1` but then you get unacceptably poor performance instead
 * hot-reload of server config (`/?reload=cfg`) does not include the `[global]` section (commandline args)
 * listens on the first IPv4 `-i` interface only (default = :: = 0.0.0.0 = all)
 * login doesn't work on winxp, but anonymous access is ok -- remove all accounts from copyparty config for that to work
   * win10 onwards does not allow connecting anonymously / without accounts
-* on windows, creating a new file through rightclick --> new --> textfile throws an error due to impacket limitations -- hit OK and F5 to get your file
 * python3 only
 * slow (the builtin webdav support in windows is 5x faster, and rclone-webdav is 30x faster)
 
@@ -2168,7 +2168,7 @@ enable [thumbnails](#thumbnails) of...
 * **JPEG XL pictures:** `pyvips` or `ffmpeg`
 
 enable [smb](#smb-server) support (**not** recommended):
-* `impacket==0.11.0`
+* `impacket==0.12.0`
 
 `pyvips` gives higher quality thumbnails than `Pillow` and is 320% faster, using 270% more ram: `sudo apt install libvips42 && python3 -m pip install --user -U pyvips`
 
diff --git a/copyparty/__main__.py b/copyparty/__main__.py
index 60b94d51..4d61450d 100644
--- a/copyparty/__main__.py
+++ b/copyparty/__main__.py
@@ -1181,7 +1181,7 @@ def add_smb(ap):
     ap2.add_argument("--smbw", action="store_true", help="enable write support (please dont)")
     ap2.add_argument("--smb1", action="store_true", help="disable SMBv2, only enable SMBv1 (CIFS)")
     ap2.add_argument("--smb-port", metavar="PORT", type=int, default=445, help="port to listen on -- if you change this value, you must NAT from TCP:445 to this port using iptables or similar")
-    ap2.add_argument("--smb-nwa-1", action="store_true", help="disable impacket#1433 workaround (truncate directory listings to 64kB)")
+    ap2.add_argument("--smb-nwa-1", action="store_true", help="truncate directory listings to 64kB (~400 files); avoids impacket-0.11 bug, fixes impacket-0.12 performance")
     ap2.add_argument("--smb-nwa-2", action="store_true", help="disable impacket workaround for filecopy globs")
     ap2.add_argument("--smba", action="store_true", help="small performance boost: disable per-account permissions, enables account coalescing instead (if one user has write/delete-access, then everyone does)")
     ap2.add_argument("--smbv", action="store_true", help="verbose")
diff --git a/copyparty/smbd.py b/copyparty/smbd.py
index 25873a7e..d165f10f 100644
--- a/copyparty/smbd.py
+++ b/copyparty/smbd.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ from types import SimpleNamespace
 from .__init__ import ANYWIN, EXE, TYPE_CHECKING
 from .authsrv import LEELOO_DALLAS, VFS
 from .bos import bos
-from .util import Daemon, min_ex, pybin, runhook
+from .util import Daemon, absreal, min_ex, pybin, runhook, vjoin
 
 if True:  # pylint: disable=using-constant-test
     from typing import Any, Union
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ class SMB(object):
     def _uname(self) -> str:
         if self.noacc:
             return LEELOO_DALLAS
+        if not self.asrv.acct:
+            return "*"
 
         try:
             # you found it! my single worst bit of code so far
@@ -189,7 +191,7 @@ class SMB(object):
         vfs, rem = self.asrv.vfs.get(vpath, uname, *perms)
         if not vfs.realpath:
             raise Exception("unmapped vfs")
-        return vfs, vfs.canonical(rem)
+        return vfs, vjoin(vfs.realpath, rem)
 
     def _listdir(self, vpath: str, *a: Any, **ka: Any) -> list[str]:
         vpath = vpath.replace("\\", "/").lstrip("/")
@@ -213,7 +215,7 @@ class SMB(object):
         sz = 112 * 2  # ['.', '..']
         for n, fn in enumerate(ls):
             if sz >= 64000:
-                t = "listing only %d of %d files (%d byte) in /%s; see impacket#1433"
+                t = "listing only %d of %d files (%d byte) in /%s for performance; see --smb-nwa-1"
                 warning(t, n, len(ls), sz, vpath)
                 break
 
@@ -242,6 +244,7 @@ class SMB(object):
                 t = "blocked write (no-write-acc %s): /%s @%s"
                 yeet(t % (vfs.axs.uwrite, vpath, uname))
 
+            ap = absreal(ap)
             xbu = vfs.flags.get("xbu")
             if xbu and not runhook(
                 self.nlog,
diff --git a/copyparty/web/svcs.html b/copyparty/web/svcs.html
index 6f8f386e..ef8847e9 100644
--- a/copyparty/web/svcs.html
+++ b/copyparty/web/svcs.html
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@
 
         {% if args.smb %}
         <h1>SMB / CIFS</h1>
-        <em><a href="https://github.com/SecureAuthCorp/impacket/issues/1433">bug:</a> max ~300 files in each folder</em>
 
         <div class="os win">
             <pre>