Network share performance issues on 2000, XP clients, 95 is ok

[Guest]

Hi,

I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server as a flie server on Dell PowerEdge 2600.
I have a network share on that server that I mount to drive letters on
clients.

Windows 95 clients have very good performance accessing the network share,
when I do "dir" form command prompt the files are displayed very quickly,
when I run DOS Cobol application from command prompt ir runs with good
performance.

Windows 2000 and XP in the same scenario, "dir" from command prompt is very
slow and the DOS Cobol application strats after 10 seconds, and it is very
slow.

It looks like the nework communication from 95 is much faster than from 2000
and XP, some settings in the OS must be wrong.

I have exactly the same setup in our other location (Windows 2000 Adv Server
on PowerEdge 2600), that I bought a year ago, and there I have no performance
issues, it works fine.

My question is, does anyone know what might be the problem and how should I
fix it?

Are there any registry setting I should check and fix?

Thanks
Andrew

 

[Phillip Windell]

Do all machines (including the servers) consistantly, across the board use
the same AD/DNS in their network settings?

 

[Guest]

We do not use AD, it is simple standalone server just for one legacy DOS
Cobol application. I did not do any network monitoring with NetMon, but it is
really strange.

One can see how simple "dir" command on XP, and 2000 stops every couple of
lines, when on 95 it displays them really quickly.

There is 1200 files in that folder on the server.

Do all machines (including the servers) consistantly, across the board use
the same AD/DNS in their network settings?

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

Hi,

I have Windows 2000 Advanced Server as a flie server on Dell PowerEdge 2600.
I have a network share on that server that I mount to drive letters on
clients.

Windows 95 clients have very good performance accessing the network share,
when I do "dir" form command prompt the files are displayed very quickly,
when I run DOS Cobol application from command prompt ir runs with good
performance.

Windows 2000 and XP in the same scenario, "dir" from command prompt is very
slow and the DOS Cobol application strats after 10 seconds, and it is very
slow.

It looks like the nework communication from 95 is much faster than from 2000
and XP, some settings in the OS must be wrong.

I have exactly the same setup in our other location (Windows 2000 Adv Server
on PowerEdge 2600), that I bought a year ago, and there I have no performance
issues, it works fine.

My question is, does anyone know what might be the problem and how should I
fix it?

Are there any registry setting I should check and fix?

Thanks
Andrew

 

[Bryan Simmonds]

Hello Andrew,

I am having a similar problem. I have Windows 2000 Server on a Dell
PowerEdge 2500 with about 20 clients. About 6 of these clients have Windows
XP Professional on them. The primary application used is Microsoft Word on
all clients.

When Word is used to access documents on the server, after about 15 to 30
mins, the network connection seems to slow right down. Eventually MS Word
will hang when you attempt to save any changes, and the system would begin
to crawl when attempting access any network resources on the server. For
example if you use Windows Explorer to browse to the server, either via My
Network Places or via a Mapped Drive, it takes about 1 minute before the
files show. Eventually it seems as if access to the server hangs and only a
reboot of the XP client would fix it. After which the whole scenario
repeats itself.

I tried replicating the problem on another server and there were no
problems.

So my question to you is, did you find a solution for your problem?

Thanks,

Bryan