Browsing network shares is slow

[Fredrik Elestedt]

Hi,

I've been searching on google for a good solution for my problem,
but I've been unable to find one which works.

For some reason browsing network shares to my Intel SS4000-E (NAS drive)
is extremely slow from a fully updated and freshly installed XP SP2.
It takes as much as 90secs just for the login dialog to appear.

I've tried the following:
* Disable looking for printers on the network.
* Disable looking for scheduled tasks.
* Disabled OpLocks.
* Disabled firewall.

I have a test install for this in a virual machine which is reset to
default settings at each shutdown (non-persistent harddrives). So I've
tested these tweaks separatly and in most combinations.

I've also tested from Linux (Gentoo running kernel 2.6.24) using the
kernel version of CIFS. There are no problems doing this from that setup.

I'm out of ideas to solve this. Perhaps someone here has an idea?

Thanks.
// Fredrik

 

[smlunatick]

Hi,

I've been searching on google for a good solution for my problem,
but I've been unable to find one which works.

For some reason browsing network shares to my Intel SS4000-E (NAS drive)
is extremely slow from a fully updated and freshly installed XP SP2.
It takes as much as 90secs just for the login dialog to appear.

I've tried the following:
* Disable looking for printers on the network.
* Disable looking for scheduled tasks.
* Disabled OpLocks.
* Disabled firewall.

I have a test install for this in a virual machine which is reset to
default settings at each shutdown (non-persistent harddrives). So I've
tested these tweaks separatly and in most combinations.

I've also tested from Linux (Gentoo running kernel 2.6.24) using the
kernel version of CIFS. There are no problems doing this from that setup.

I'm out of ideas to solve this. Perhaps someone here has an idea?

Thanks.
// Fredrik

Check your fanti-virus system. Several anti-virus systems have a
module to protect against Internet worm style viruses and this behaves
like a firewall.

 

[Fredrik Elestedt]

Check your fanti-virus system. Several anti-virus systems have a
module to protect against Internet worm style viruses and this behaves
like a firewall.

The freshly installed XP on the virtual machine does not have any such
software installed.
Thanks for the tip though - hadn't thought that at all.