Re: New XP Pro Networking Quesi
From: mag3 (mag3*hates*spam*_at_newsguy.com)
Date: 04/14/04
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 23:01:00 -0400
Quoting mag3 <mag3*hates*spam*@newsguy.com> regarding New XP Pro Networking
Quesi in a message dated Sun, 11 Apr 2004 13:29:53 -0400:
>Hello - I have just upgraded two of my Home LAN machines to XP Pro from Win2k.
>I've done this after having sucessfully upgrading my PDC from NT4 Server to
>Server 2003. All DNS and DHCP problems are resolved and both are fully
>functional. Slowness in logging on was resolved. But now that I've converted
>two of the workstations to XP Pro, I have a new issue as follows:
>
>
> 1) SLOW FILE XFR!! GRRRR!!! Having set up file shares between the
> workstations and the PDC, I now find that file transfers (Copy/Move
> etc.) between a non XP machine (ie. W2K / W98 etc.) and an XP machine
> (XP Pro / Server 2003) are as quick as always but when going from one
> XP pro machine to the other or to/from the PDC (Server 2003), the
> XFRs take incredibly long and result in many Hub collisions (and the
> hub traffic does not appear to be at full speed in this case). The LAN
> is a 100mb TX Lan, Hub is a 3com office connect 8 port 100mb Hub. The
> NIC's are the 3com Gigabit LOM resident on board the ASUS P4P800
> motherboard and all are "hard set" to 100mb (ie. *not* Autosense - I
> learned that from the Server 2003 install).
>
> Can someone point me in the correct direction here as this is most
> frustrating. Many thanks in advance.
Problem Solved!!! (Temporarily anyway) :-)
The temporary solution is to install the NETBEUI protocol (found on the XP Pro
CD). This works like a charm, but it's not the prefered solution as Microsoft
no longer supports NETBEUI. They will have to provide a more permanent
solution!!!
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