Re: XP Disgustingly Slow Over Network. Please Help

Keith, Thanks for the pointers. I just tried playing around with the NETBIOS
settings, and there was no change. I do not have WINS configured on the
Server (Do I need to?? Nothing older than Windows 2000 here)

I use Mapped drives, but as a test, I tried accessing the folders directly
trough the servername/sharename, and that still did not make a
difference....

HOWEVER, I've narrowed the problem down to the folders that contain AutoCAD
files. If I try and open a folder with AutoCAD files, even if it only has 4
files in it, it will take about 5-10 seconds to open.

IF the folder contains Word, PDF, or any other file such as BMP, JPG, etc
the files will show up almost immediately... even if there are hundreds of
files in there???

What the heck?

I'm running latest patches for that software too. The Files icons are
probably no more complex looking than a word document.

Doesn't make sense to me, but that is what's happening....

Can anyone make sense out of this?


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"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*o*m> wrote in message
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> "Sam Manzella" <sjmanzella@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%239$e7yDPFHA.3988@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Well, I'm onto day three with this project. I just tried a different
>> Network card hoping that would be it, but still no improvement.
>>
>> I also noticed that my Roaming Profile no longer updates on the server
>> when shutting down or logging off... I even deleted my profile, and
>> started with a clean new one.
>>
>> I can for sure say at this point that I will NOT be suggesting to my boss
>> that we buy upgrades to XP for all our other workstations...
>>
>> So far XP is fine on my standalone laptop. Network/Domain scenario, is
>> really pizzing me off.
>>
>>
>
> Sam
>
> Sounds like you have a different problem from mine. What is the NETBIOS
> setting on the XP workstation? How are you accessing the share? Do you use
> a mapped drive? If you run \\server_name\share_name does it access the
> share faster? Are you using a local DNS server for the domain? Do you have
> a WINS server?
>
> Kerry
>
>


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