Slow browsing of network share

[Darragh]

I have a client using some WinXP Pro workstations to
access WinNT servers. Some of the network shared folders
have thousands of sub-folders (2-3K) and this appears to
cause quite a delay in displaying the contents. The W2K
workstations on the network are not experiencing the same
kind of delays. I haven't been able to figure out a
solution and unfortunately it looks like we're going to
have to install W2K.

Is there something that WinXP does when browsing that 2K
doesn't and if so can it be disabled?

Hope you can help

Darragh

 

[IBC]

Welcome to the long painful search. You'll find many 'solutions' on google,
including some from Microsoft, but I have yet to find one that works. This
problem is holding up deployment of 6 new machines in our office.

Nobody can seem to figure out what the problem is.

 

[Ken Wickes [MSFT]]

Have you tried the provider order change?

 

[jwkh]

We've the same type of problem with XP Pro's and w2k
standard servers. Is this ONLY with XP and NT, or XP and
NT/w2k for you folks?

jwkh

 

[IBC]

All W2K clients and one NT4.0 Client are solid. Just the XP client on a
SBS2000. While I agree it may not be XP's problem, XP is the only one
raising a stink.

Ken, WHICH provider order are you refering to? There was one that wanted
things changed in DNS, One that wanted Windows Logon moved to the top, and
more.

I'm at wits end here, and I suppose i COULD try an LMHOSTS file, but I don't
think thats the issue. (its not that the browser is coming up blank, its
just taking forever to browse.

 

[jwkh]

I know that MS does NOT like ANYTHING above TCP/IP in the
Advanced Settings, Adapters and Bindings.

I'd say that the Provider Order should be:

Network Providers
MS Windows Network
MS Terminal Services (if you're doing that)
Web Client Network

Not sure what else he could be speaking of....

jwkh

 

[tom]

Try disabling the Web Client service. This worked for me
to speed up browsing Samba shares from XP.

 

[Darragh]

In someways it's good to hear I'm not the only one having
these problems! I have verified the provider order is
correct and it didn't seem to make any difference!

-----Original Message-----
Have you tried the provider order change?

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Ken Wickes [MSFT]
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Welcome to the long painful search. You'll find

many 'solutions' on
google,

including some from Microsoft, but I have yet to find one that works. This
problem is holding up deployment of 6 new machines in our office.

Nobody can seem to figure out what the problem is.

.

 

[Darragh]

I think the best way of describing what is happening is
that there is a delay while XP builds the list of
subfolders because it is looking for too much information
from the server regarding each folder - you know the way
that XP likes to display thumbnails of photos/graphics
contained within a folder on the actual folder icon?

 

[IBC]

OK, I haven't even looked, but how is that done?

Try disabling the Web Client service. This worked for me
to speed up browsing Samba shares from XP.

 

[Danny Slye - [MSFT}]

Try disabling the web client first. If that fails, call Microsoft and ask
for hotfix 328237 (hotfixes are free). I have had some success with this
hotfix. Be sure and test with a clean non-production machine.
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[IBC]

For the others who may not know:

Stop/disable the Web Client
service- right click MY COMPUTER then click manage.
Double click SERVICES and stop/disable WEB CLIENT.

 

[IBC]

And THAT didn't work either.

For the others who may not know:

Stop/disable the Web Client
service- right click MY COMPUTER then click manage.
Double click SERVICES and stop/disable WEB CLIENT.

 

[IBC]

And the Hotfix for 326826 completely hosed the machine alltogether.

Video can no longer detect dual displays, group policies are
ignored......tons of fun for big chief....

Be forewarned, this Hotfix has the Characters WXP_SP2_x86 in it, so this is
obviously headed toward SP2.

I'm sure its not finished yet, but it would be beyond me as to why any Fix
to address slow networking would tinker with the display settings.

 

[Guest]

I had a similar problem.

We are using Win 2K pro as a file server in a small office. I have a directory with about 5000 files in it. The old win 98 machines browsed it almost instantly but Win NT, 2K or Xp took 20 seconds or so. We tried all sorts of stuff but this was the final fix.

From the Microsoft website

177266 - Remote Directory lists Are Slower Than Local Directory Listings

We did the Regedit it suggested to the server and all is well now.

Hope this helps.