Extremely slow connection to network shares.

[Guest]

I am having a very frustrating problem. I am trying to connect a windows
2000 Pro box to a couple of shared printers that are connected to 2 different
Windows XP home computers. It takes a few minutes to do anything to them.
It isn't limited to the printers. If I try to access either of the computers
via, \\computername it takes a very long time to display anything. What
really gets me is that I can connect to another XP computer without any
problems.

All of the XP machines have the same updates applied and have identical
Hardware. Anyone have a clue what might be causing this. Oh, of course, it
worked fine yesterday.

 

[Pegasus]

I am having a very frustrating problem. I am trying to connect a windows
2000 Pro box to a couple of shared printers that are connected to 2 different
Windows XP home computers. It takes a few minutes to do anything to them.
It isn't limited to the printers. If I try to access either of the computers
via, \\computername it takes a very long time to display anything. What
really gets me is that I can connect to another XP computer without any
problems.

All of the XP machines have the same updates applied and have identical
Hardware. Anyone have a clue what might be causing this. Oh, of course, it
worked fine yesterday.

Could be a name resolution problem. What happens when you
run this command from a Command Prompt:

net use T: \\192.168.0.55\ShareName

(replace 192.168.0.55 with the correct IP address of the
target PC).

 

[Guest]

You can check the link speed for the NICs in the affected computers and make
sure they are all the same.