Network Drive Polling problem

[Brad Clarke]

Hi,

A funny problem.

WinXP in small office peer-to-peer network, with other XP & W2K computers,
and a computer acting as a file server (XP-Pro - but not using it as a
formal server).- 6 Computers in network)

What happens is that on the XP machine, when using the File Open dialog in
any application, and also routines that look for Configuration files, it
takes a long time (5 seconds) to locate the file and populate the relevant
form. It seems that it is polling all network drives, even though the info
it is after is on the local C drive.

Here is the funny bit - If you manually stop (disable) the Local Area
Network Connection, and restart it, the problem goes away, and File dialogs
and the routines run immediately with no delay. But if you just re-start
WinXP the problem comes back.

We are running TCP/IP protocol on the network.


Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Brad Clarke

 

[Peter]

Hi,

A funny problem.

WinXP in small office peer-to-peer network, with other XP & W2K computers,
and a computer acting as a file server (XP-Pro - but not using it as a
formal server).- 6 Computers in network)

What happens is that on the XP machine, when using the File Open dialog in
any application, and also routines that look for Configuration files, it
takes a long time (5 seconds) to locate the file and populate the relevant
form. It seems that it is polling all network drives, even though the info
it is after is on the local C drive.

Here is the funny bit - If you manually stop (disable) the Local Area
Network Connection, and restart it, the problem goes away, and File dialogs
and the routines run immediately with no delay. But if you just re-start
WinXP the problem comes back.

We are running TCP/IP protocol on the network.


Any help appreciated.

Thanks

Brad Clarke