home network help!

[elgato]

Ok, here's my problem: I have two XP Pro machines at home, sharing an
internet cable connection through a minihub (there is no gateway or server),
both using standard NICs. I also wanted to network both machines so I can
basically share printers and some files; nothing heavy duty really.

Because of the risk of sharing files with this kind of setup, even though I
am running ZoneAlarm on both machines, I was advised to use a non
internet-aware protocol such as NetBEUI or IPX/SPX to do the sharing.



I set up the network in this way, disabling file and printer sharing over
TCP/IP and binding it only to Net BEUI. The connection works properly, the
machines are both visible but transfers between machines are incredibly
slow. I mean a 1MB file takes about a minute to transfer! I switched from
NewBEUI to IPS/SPX but obtained the same poor performance.



Is there something I'm doing wrong? I would appreciate any input on this
matter.



Thnx in advance

 

[blariz]

I uses TCP/IP for my network and printer sharing but initially had very slow
response time also. I ended up Stopping and then Disabling the WebClient
service on all machines in my network and now am able to get full speed out
of my 10/100 NIC's. It is worth a try, and after doing that change and
rebooting both machines, it could solve your problem.
blariz

 

[elgato]

Thanks for the tip but unfortunately it did not work for me. I am still
having this dreadful performance, even opening a folder takes forever. This
is so frustrating.

 

[blariz]

The symptoms you describe are exactly the types of issues I was having.
Maybe you could revert back to TCP/IP with WebClient Stopped and Disabled
and see if you can get that baseline setup to work. Then convert back to
NETBEUI gradually from there to try and pinpoint the problem(s).
blariz