networking questions

[Vic]

In the home setup here, the network runs rather smoothly and quickly
with one exception. Before explaining the exception let me preface with
the following. When on the tower PC I can enter, RUN \\laptop and
virtually instantly the shared drives pop up, and visa versa.

The exception occurs when accessing the NETWORK in Explorer. When the
workgroup is clicked it seems explorer grinds for a while (27 sec.)
before networked computers show up. Does any body know why this s-l-o-w
retrieval? Does anybody know how to speed it up? Seems odd explorer
would be so slow when drives pop up almost instantly from a command
prompt!

Thanks

 

[Shenan Stanley]

In the home setup here, the network runs rather smoothly and quickly
with one exception. Before explaining the exception let me preface
with the following. When on the tower PC I can enter, RUN \\laptop
and virtually instantly the shared drives pop up, and visa versa.

The exception occurs when accessing the NETWORK in Explorer. When
the workgroup is clicked it seems explorer grinds for a while (27
sec.) before networked computers show up. Does any body know why
this s-l-o-w retrieval? Does anybody know how to speed it up? Seems odd
explorer would be so slow when drives pop up almost
instantly from a command prompt!

Seems like normal to me. When you map a drive share from the command
prompt:

net use x: \\server\sharename

It merely does what you tell it - which is one thing.

When y9ou open up the GUI, it has all those background actions it is also
taking. Looking for more shares, looking for file types and how to display
them, looking for file attributes, etc.

Just create some batch script to map the shares you wish to from now on and
run it and then open my computer/windows explorer to get to what you want.

 

[Newbie Coder]

Vic,

What if you do theis?

\\laptopname\

Do you see the shares immediately?

 

[Script]

Under Tools | Folder Options.. | View tab | is the Automatically Check for
Network Files and Folders box checked? (Top box under Advanced Settings:,
Files and Folders)

 

[Vic]

Yes, that what I tried saying in the first post. ALL share popup
immediately when I enter
\\laptop but the shares take almost half-a-minute to showup in Explorers
NETWORK branch.

BTW: I've researched this and removed the namespace entries for printers
and tasks. That was many moons ago ... made a nice improvement to
network speed. Now I'm trying to improve Explorers displaying of
networked computers.

Lastly, files transfer speeds are good.
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Vic,

What if you do theis?

\\laptopname\

Do you see the shares immediately?

 

[Vic]

No, just checked and that box is not checked. Would checking it improve
things?
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