Slow Browsing in Windows Explorer

[Stephane Giguere]

We have WIN2000 Service Pack 4 installed on all of our
machines running under Novell 5.1 servers (Novell Client
4.90). When we right-click for a first time on any files
or folders either on from a local drive than from a Novell
mapped drive, it takes a long time to be able to get the
properties (7 to 10 seconds). When we right-click again
immediately after, the menu comes right away. The same
scenario takes place when we select a NDS queued based
printer in order to print something (first print very slow
then we get the second quick). Is there a way to eliminate
or at least reduce the time to wait in order to get access
to our resources (files, NDS printers etc...) in WIN2K?

Thanks !!!

 

[Ray Kim]

Having a similar issue on one PC in my network; when the
user goes to save a file (in any app.) and clicks the drop-
down menu, it takes 10 seconds or so for the drive list to
appear. There are about 5 mapped drives; we're a pure
Active Directory native mode shop.

 

[John Wunderlich]

-----Original Message-----
We have WIN2000 Service Pack 4 installed on all of our
machines running under Novell 5.1 servers (Novell Client
4.90). When we right-click for a first time on any files or
folders either on from a local drive than from a Novell mapped
drive, it takes a long time to be able to get the properties (7
to 10 seconds). [...]

Having a similar issue on one PC in my network; when the
user goes to save a file (in any app.) and clicks the drop-
down menu, it takes 10 seconds or so for the drive list to
appear. There are about 5 mapped drives; we're a pure
Active Directory native mode shop.

The problem is Novell Client 4.90.
There is a new service pack out that eliminates this problem.
Go to the Novell site:

<http://download.novell.com/pages/PublicSearch.jsp>

and you will see Client 4.90 SP1a in the "Top 10 Downloads" Section.

This patch fixed me right up!

HTH,
John