Open document on Word 2000 slow over network

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From: Robert S (robert_s_at_emailme.net.au)
Date: 01/07/05 

Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:37:45 +1100

I am running Word 2000 on an XP Pro machine. This is networked to a Win
2000 server.

When I try to open a document from Word 2000 on the server from my XP
machine, it hangs for a long time before it lists the documents. At times
it locks up.

There seem to be a lot of theories about this sort of behaviour - any
suggestions? It seems to be a problem when the client is XP and the server
is 2000. I'm running Norton Internet Security on the Server, but I haven't
been able to disable this fully to test whether this is the problem.

Any suggestions?

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