File access speed after moving from Novell to Windows

[Darryl]

Hi,

We have recently moved all of our files from Novell servers to a Windows
2000 server. All seemed fine, but now users are complaining that it is
taking ages to open files in MS Word or Excel. Sometimes up to a minute. The
Novell client has been removed from the machine and in one instance we have
tried this on a brand new machine that has never seen Novell. The Novell
server are still switched on but users do not have any access to them.

Has anyone seen anything like this before? Any help would be much
appreciated!

Apologises if this is posted in the wrong forum, please advise if there is a
more suitable forum that I should use.


Thanks,

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

To be honest, I'd expect performance degradation when
"downgrading" a network file server from Novell to a Microsoft OS.
Novell servers don't need to tie up most of the system's resources
presenting a pretty GUI. In particular, Novell has always excelled at
file and print sharing (Microsoft's weakest area), while Microsoft
builds good application servers, which is Novell's weak area.

Of course, not even a Microsoft server OS should take up to a
minute to open a simple document, so there is probably something else
wrong. What protocol(s) are you using? If you had IPX/SPX installed
for the Novell network, it can be removed now. Multiple protocols
also slow down Microsoft servers, in my experience.


Bruce Chambers

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[Darryl]

We have only TCP/IP installed, newly created files appear to be OK, but old
files are slow.

Thanks,