System hang with networking

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm having a few users experiencing an error when opening a file in any
program (i.e. office) via the File > Open menu route. If the network is
connected/ *not* disabled, randomly the system will "hang". It will recover
after about a minute, but does not respond to user interaction during this
time. If the system is disconnected from the network or the connection
*disabled* this does not happen at all.

The machines are fresh installs of XP Pro and older installs alike. There's
no pattern other than the time involved during the hang (seems to be the
same). They are connected to a W2k domain and have two to four mapped
shares(drives) to the same box. They also are all connected to the same
printer via a queue.

I'm pondering a reinstall of the domain controller, but I'm not sure thats
the reason and am trying to rule out hardware. Actual net access otherwise
never fails. Just seems to be this file open issue.

 

[sublime1]

*Hi,

I'm having a few users experiencing an error when opening a file i
any
program (i.e. office) via the File > Open menu route. If the networ
is
connected/ *not* disabled, randomly the system will "hang". It wil
recover
after about a minute, but does not respond to user interaction durin
this
time. If the system is disconnected from the network or th
connection
*disabled* this does not happen at all.

The machines are fresh installs of XP Pro and older installs alike.
There's
no pattern other than the time involved during the hang (seems to b
the
same). They are connected to a W2k domain and have two to fou
mapped
shares(drives) to the same box. They also are all connected to th
same
printer via a queue.

I'm pondering a reinstall of the domain controller, but I'm not sur
thats
the reason and am trying to rule out hardware. Actual net acces
otherwise
never fails. Just seems to be this file open issue. *

Recently we have been having what appears to be the same problem:
File Open dialog box hangs for a minute or so, * and genera
instability in applications, especially MS Office. We correlated thi
to installation of SP2, or perhaps an update directly after. No on
was running into this before SP2; some of are now. Not a dead-sur
result, but seems likely.

More info: we do NOT use a domain (simple file sharing). Everyone i
running Norton AV (I mention this beacuse sometimes during hangs we se
status message "Requesting virus scan"), we are on a network with
number of per-to-peer nodes (browsing the network can be pokey), mos
everyone is running Win XP Pro. There are probably other commonalitie


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