Slow network speed after upgrading from win 98 to win 2000

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Guest

Hi
My customer has just upgraded their client PCs to windows 2000. When they access files in a particular directory on the server, it takes about 20-30 seconds to append information to this file before they can continue
This has only started to happen after the upgrade from Win 98 to Win 2000
The network connection is not particularly good, but they never had problems when using Win 98
Is there a secuirity policy which can be refined to improve the performance of this.
 
M

Martí Serrano

Do you mean a slow WAN link?
How many files are in the folder? I'm experiencing a problem that looks
similar to yours with folders contaning about 3 thousand files.

Pete Waldo said:
Hi,
My customer has just upgraded their client PCs to windows 2000. When they
access files in a particular directory on the server, it takes about 20-30
seconds to append information to this file before they can continue.
This has only started to happen after the upgrade from Win 98 to Win 2000.
The network connection is not particularly good, but they never had problems when using Win 98.
Is there a secuirity policy which can be refined to improve the
performance of this.
 
G

Guest

There are about 1500 files in the directory on the server.
About 15 users are accessing this directory, but are all accessing different files in the directory.
Nothing has changed on the server as other Win98 machines are working OK
They do access the server via a WAN, but have done the same using Win 98 without problems

Its a puzzle!!
----- Martí Serrano wrote: ----

Do you mean a slow WAN link
How many files are in the folder? I'm experiencing a problem that look
similar to yours with folders contaning about 3 thousand files

Pete Waldo said:
Hi
My customer has just upgraded their client PCs to windows 2000. When the
access files in a particular directory on the server, it takes about 20-3
seconds to append information to this file before they can continue
This has only started to happen after the upgrade from Win 98 to Win 2000
The network connection is not particularly good, but they never ha problems when using Win 98
Is there a secuirity policy which can be refined to improve th
performance of this
 
M

Martí Serrano

Look in this newsgroup for the thread 'windows explorer: traffic across wan'
in case you are experiencing the same problem (original posted on
15/Oct/2003; last post on 12/Nov/2003).
If it is, look in the web for 2xExplorer or any other replacement for the
windows explorer included in Win2K.
You can try moving a number of files to another folder temporarily and see
if the problem diminishes (in the case mentioned the problem is proportional
to the amount of files).

Martí


Peter Waldo said:
There are about 1500 files in the directory on the server.
About 15 users are accessing this directory, but are all accessing
different files in the directory.
 
S

SaltPeter

Pete Waldo said:
Hi,
My customer has just upgraded their client PCs to windows 2000. When they
access files in a particular directory on the server, it takes about 20-30
seconds to append information to this file before they can continue.
This has only started to happen after the upgrade from Win 98 to Win 2000.
The network connection is not particularly good, but they never had problems when using Win 98.
Is there a secuirity policy which can be refined to improve the
performance of this.

It's not a security policy issue, it's a name resolution issue. W2K depends
on a DNS server to resolve name resolution. Win9x uses WINS or netbios
broadcasting. While W2K can support netbios, it'll do so after verifying for
a dns server. Win9x's sequence checks for a dns server last.

To confirm that it's a name resolution issue, add the targetted server's
name + ip_address to a W2K system's HOST file or point the W2K client to an
existing DNS server on the network (LAN properties).

There is no way Win98 will be faster in a network environment, Win98's
tcp/ip stack is so bad that WinME was distributed with a modified Win95 OSR2
stack. Should you need more help, you should state what, if any, form of
name resolution is being supported at the client's site. Wins? netbios
broadcasts only? DNS?.
 
G

Guest

Cheers for the info, I don't understand half this information, but will try it anyway.
 

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