xp pro file sharing issue on microsoft network - behavior differs with computers

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From: Antoine (antoineducom_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: 10 Sep 2004 02:28:35 -0700

Hello,

I'm having a verry annoying problem with my current setup.

- we have a small office network on a single LAN segment, with around
15 computers.
- all computers run XP pro
- 2 computers are HP boxes, others are Samsung. all came with XP
preinstalled by the vendors.
- all PCs are part of the same network / workgroup, with no domain.
- all PCs have 2 NICs, but only using one (the other is disabled),
excepted one PC connected to the internet (for itself only, it's not
sharing its connection)

we need to have one PC act as some kind of file server: other
computers read and write files on its disk every few seconds.

problem is:
- when HP acts as file server: no problem
- when Samsung acts as file server: even though I can see and get
files from explorer (my network places, etc... or even through
shortcuts...), when I use an application to reach the files (MS Excel
or Java application), the first access is OK, but the second freezes
the application for around 20 seconds.
- at the same time, on the other computer (the file server), the file
might appear as empty (size = 0Kb), and trying to access it (it's a
text file) brings up a frozen notepad... after around 20 seconds,
result can vary: either the file is still here, intact, or sometimes
it has also simply disappeared: even though it show as present in the
explorer, trying to delete it brings up a "file seems not to be
present", and it's then removed from the view.

- at first I thought that was a NIC related issue, but we changed NICs
several times, and are still experiencing the same problem.

so I'm wondering if there is any configuration that should be tweaked
in order to have the samsung communicate cleanly with other PCs.
I'm thinking especially as issues such as:
- services that would prevent a second connection from the same PC
(authentication ?)
- services that would not be started on the samsung PC ?

interesting enough: the problem comes definitly from the samsung setup
because:
- HP have no problem communicating together
- samsung & HP -> problem
- samsung & samsung -> problem

I would really appreciate some help from MS specialists...

thanks

Antoine

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