Slow network browsing

[james]

I have a small network with a mixture of Win98,2k and XP
machines. One Win2k pro machine acts as a dhcp, nat and
file server for the others. It's a workgroup not a domain.
TCP/IP is used only.
Everything is working, but browsing the server's shared
directories from 2k or XP machines is very slow (>10 secs
to display ~700 object dir). Browsing from the 98 machines
is as quick as a local directory.
I have already disabled task scheduler, before that it took
upwards of a minute to list dirs.
Why are the 2k & XP machines so slow and is there anything
I can do about this?

 

[Karanne]

A couple of questions, James?
1) Are you using hubs or switches?
2) Are you using FindFast? If so, you may wish to index the user's network
share ONLY, and set it to update once every several hours, instead of
continuously.
3) There is apparently a bug in the TCP/IP stack with 2k
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;278678) which
involves the loopback code. If these machines do not need to access the
Internet, you may wish to install NetBEUI.

HTH,
Kara

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[james]

1) Hubs.
2) Not using findfast.
3) According to the article this bug only effects
accessing shares on the same machine, hence the loopback
code. Plus, the machines do need internet access.

Thanks for your help.

james

-----Original Message-----
A couple of questions, James?
1) Are you using hubs or switches?
2) Are you using FindFast? If so, you may wish to index

the user's network

share ONLY, and set it to update once every several

hours, instead of

continuously.
3) There is apparently a bug in the TCP/IP stack with 2k
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-

us;278678) which

involves the loopback code. If these machines do not need

to access the

Internet, you may wish to install NetBEUI.

HTH,
Kara

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domain.secsmachinestookanything

 

[floppybootstomp]

Karanne:

When replying, would you kindly edit James' e-mail address out of any quotes.

Thank you