Talking to NT 3.51
From: jjjdavidson (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/30/04
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 06:30:45 -0700
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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