Re: network access slow but fast on 2000 machines

From: Robert L [MS-MVP] (noreply_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 10:04:27 -0500

it could be hardware settings issue. check the switch and NIC settings. 

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"Chris C" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:1447101c444b1$bcef8350$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>I have a small workgroup in my office (12 machines).
> They are all Win2000 but my machine is XP pro.  We all
> have a mapped network drive to our file server.  My XP
> machine opens and browses these mapped drives VERY slow,
> but the 2000 machines blaze through the mapped drives.
> Why is this?
>
> I have disabled "netork drive scanning" in Norton and
> have tried all other tweaks i can think of but browsing
> the network is still slow.

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