XP, or Not XP....that is the question.....

From: IBC (spamityspam_at_spam.spam)
Date: 02/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:57:13 -0600

As noted here before, I have been trying to deploy an XP box on our SBS2K
network with miserable success. When browsing network drives, the machine
would just hang and hang. Sometimes browsing would be fast, other times the
machine would actually go into the "not responding" mode. So I figure this
new XP box is killing me and my network.

Low and behold, I'm on the server yesterday trying to view some files and
while navigating through directories suddenly I get the hourglass and have
to stand and wait around a minute before my LOCAL drives and directories
appear. What in blazes is going on here?! I'm at a record low as far as
critical errors go in the event logs, all the patches ahve been applied (and
I'm starting to suspect they may have been the culprit) and I', flat out at
a loss to figure out why I'm having such huge delays in browsing. Before all
the patches, the screens would pop as fast as I could double click, now
there is at least a minimal wait on almost all machines.

To the best of my knowledge, the DNS is fine, but if somebody cares to
elaborate exactly what I should be looking at inthe DNS, I can double check
it.

Thanks.