Re: Talking to NT 3.51
From: Yor Suiris (yor_at_hallgroupNOT.net)
Date: 09/01/04
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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:03:31 -0400
I know that MY network, with older machines (Win9x, NT4 & 3.51), runs much
better if I use NetBUIE on ALL the machines.
"jjjdavidson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> OK, I'm probably doomed to disappointment on this one, but
> these groups pull rabbits out of hats pretty often.
>
> We have an SBS 2003 domain with mostly Win XP and W2K
> workstations. But we have one old box running NT 3.51 (a
> piece of old CNC equipment running proprietary software
> that we can't easily upgrade). The 3.51 box joined the
> domain just fine, reads from the server just fine.
>
> But XP and W2K have trouble reading shared folders on the
> 3.51 box. A DOS DIR command works fine. Anything more
> complex, and the accessing program runs in fits and jerks.
>
> Just scrolling down a list of files in explorer.exe, you
> can scroll thru several files, then explorer will just
> halt for 35-45 seconds, then for a few seconds you can
> scroll thru more files, then another 35-45 second halt.
> File size is irrelevant to response time; it hangs on 1Kb
> files as readily as 1Mb files.
>
> Run any program on W2K or XP (even notepad) that opens a
> shared file on the 3.51 box, and either it zips along
> normally or it halts for 45 seconds, then runs fine. If
> you have explorer.exe and something else both reading the
> 3.51 box, they'll both halt together, then both run
> together. (The XP/2K machine itself doesn't hang, just
> whatever programs are reading from 3.51 shares.)
>
> Backups, needless to say, take forever. Weirdly (or not),
> our one remaining NT 4.0 machine shows no hesitations at
> all reading from the 3.51 shares.
>
> Anybody know why XP and 2K can't read happily from 3.51?
>
> Thanks!
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