Hi all,
I'm having an annoying problem on an XP Home box whereby certain
applications (Adobe apps seem to be particularly bad) hang for about
90 seconds, usually on startup, but sometimes more frequently.
I did some exploration and discovered that the system process is
trying to make a connection to the Directory Services on my file
server on port 445, followed some time later by svchosts trying to
make an equally fruitless connection on port 80. The server in
question (Fedora running Samba) is currently offline, hence the
lengthy hang. Some apps are usable after they come back from this, but
Photoshop is unusable as it frequently tries to re-establish the
connection.
The workaround is to power up the file server, but this kind of
defeats my intentions of having it as an offline backup.
I've spent most of the day trying to find a solution, but nothing's
worked. I don't have any network drives mapped, though there are
shortcuts under "My network places". I removed a printer that I'd had
shared from the server to no avail (this left IPP ports still mapped
in the registry afterwards however). The offending apps don't seem to
have any recent files mapped to the network shares, plus I modified
the paths in the registry for any potential offenders with no joy.
If anybody can shine any light on this, I'd much appreciate it!
Thanks,
John
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