Sluggish Network/Exchange

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Dear experts:

I have an XP Proferssional machine with a roaming profile signing onto a
2000 Small Biz domain. I have a CA Antivirus solution running; the PC runs
beautifully, except every other day, for the full day, the network becomes
VERY sluggish. OPening files from mapped drives takes 2 minutes, as does
simply opening the mapped drives. The other issue is that Outlook (on these
days) will prompt me for my network password.

Running things locally works wonderfully, but it is this communication that
is strange. I have reset all devices and the problem sporadically persists. I
have tried various solutions (1. Reseting everything, removing shortcuts for
My Network places, Unchecking the selcetion in Tool that says "Automatically
search for network drives and printers". I have installed the latest updates
as well.

This is for my secretary's PC, and we can barely function on these days.

THANK YOU!

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Dear experts:

I have an XP Proferssional machine with a roaming profile signing
onto a 2000 Small Biz domain. I have a CA Antivirus solution running;
the PC runs beautifully, except every other day, for the full day,
the network becomes VERY sluggish. OPening files from mapped drives
takes 2 minutes, as does simply opening the mapped drives. The other
issue is that Outlook (on these days) will prompt me for my network
password.

Running things locally works wonderfully, but it is this
communication that is strange. I have reset all devices and the
problem sporadically persists. I have tried various solutions (1.
Reseting everything, removing shortcuts for My Network places,
Unchecking the selcetion in Tool that says "Automatically search for
network drives and printers". I have installed the latest updates as
well.

This is for my secretary's PC, and we can barely function on these
days.

THANK YOU!

Hi - you'd be best off posting this in
microsoft.public.backoffice.smallbiz2000, I think.
Also include anything you've found in your server and client event logs.
And whether or not your file-level antivirus on the server is set to scan
inbound and outbound files (I recommend inbound only).