Windows XP Clients Explorer hangs when accessing DFS shares

From: Reinhard Brandstädter (r.brandstaedter_at_gmx.at)
Date: 08/08/04 

Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 16:52:49 +0200

Hi,

I've got an issue with most of my windows xp pro clients that are
accessing ~5 network shares on a Active Directory DFS share that's
located on a Windows 2000 Server (SP4).
When browsing the network shares with windows explorer on windows xp the
explorer hangs periodically. It takes about 10-20 seconds until the
explorer is responding again. During this time issuing a "net share"
command also seems to block. Working with windows 2000 clients
everything is smooth so I can asume the server is fine. I've searched
Technet articles and found suggestions about problems in pre-sp2 W2K
Servers/Clients etc. but none of these fixed my problem.
I've also turned off "automatic network share and printer detection",
without any success.
It really seems to be a client problem, there are no anomalies on the
server.

Any ideas how to resolve this?
Thanks,
R

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