Re: takes 5-8 seconds to open a shared folder on Windows 2003 server

Jeremy Church wrote: 
I have a few questions.

Is it slow to bring up the list of shares also, or just to open a share a
view what is inside?
Is it exactly the same delay when opening a share every time or does it
vary?
Do you see the same delay when accessing folders inside share, or only when
opening up the share?
Are these servers connected to the network with gigabit controllers running
at 1Gbit?
It souds like you have tried several different configurations.  Are all your
configuration using the same hardware?
Do you have the same slowness when the server is accessing its own shares?

I don't know if I can help, but these are some things that may make it
easier to narrow down what it could or couldn't be.



Hi Jeremy,

This only happens the first time I browse the shared folder. Once the
folder is open, the delay will be disappeared and other shared folders
will be normal too. It will only happen again if I logout and logon to
the workstation and browse the folders again. Also the delay is
consistent and there is not delay to list the shares.

These servers are all running on 100M ethernet. All the servers I tried
have different hardware configurations.

I tried setting up a new stand alone server and it's still doing the same thing.

Keith

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