Networking access is slower than expected

[Guest]

Hi,

I've had this problem for some time and I was hoping that someone might know
a solution. I have mostly Windows 2000 Pro machines in my office but I have
a few XP boxes as well. On some machines a simple network process like
'copy' takes an incredible amount of time versus the same process on other
systems in my office.

As an example, I open a network drive (and I've tried this on two different
network machines, so I can rule our issues with the network system), then
highlight some documents (in my example I am looking at 5,430 objects), and
then select 'Edit' | 'Copy' from the drop-down list. On my example PC it
takes approximately 3 minutes and 10 seconds for the cursor to go from an
hour glass back to an arrow (this PC is a 3.4 Ghz processor with 2 Gb of Ram
in it running Win2K Pro). And on another machine it takes approximately 10
seconds to go from an hour glass back to a cursor (this PC is a 1.8 Ghz
processor with 256 M of Ram in it running Win2K Pro). It doesn't appear to
be hardware related, and the OS installation on both PCs is about 6 months
old.

If anyone has any suggestions on further troubleshooting of this problem or
if you have seen this problem and resolved it, I'd greatly appreciate your
comments.

Thanks in Advance,
JeffH

 

[Kurt]

First we're gonna need a bit more info. How large a network? Multiple
switches? Any hubs? All 100Mb? Routed? Stuff llike that.

....kurt

 

[Guest]

Are you in a Active Directory environment?
If so look at the workstation dns entries. Are both machines pointing to
the MS Dns server in their tcp/ip properties? If not that could be your
issue. They should be.

 

[Gordon]

Are you in a Active Directory environment?
If so look at the workstation dns entries. Are both machines pointing to
the MS Dns server in their tcp/ip properties? If not that could be your
issue. They should be.

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Thank you.