Vista and Windows Server 2003 SP2 Issue

[UglyRat]

Hi all,

I have installed Windows Server 2003 SP2 on my R2 server. Now when I try
and browse the shares of the server from Windows Vista (I have two installs
of Vista) it is very slow to resolve folder names. For example I have a
drive mapped to a share, when I click the arrow next to the drive it takes
about 10 seconds to resolve the list of folder names within the share.
This delay is happening on any folder I try to open inside any share. If I
access the server using Windows XP, no problems at all. Even running a
virtual machine with XP on a Vista host has no problems.

I am reluctant to uninstall the SP2 because of security, but I am starting
to run out of options.

Here are the fault finding techniques I have tried so far;

1) Disabled NBT.
2) Changed the local Group Policy to disable all SMB signing.
3) Connected to Vista from the Server, no delay when browsing Vista from the
Server.
4) Installed Network Monitor v3 on Vista and had a look at the frames, not
much help.
5) Ran a robocopy from the Server to the Vista machine (surprise surprise,
no help).

I should mention that my laptop is not a member of the active directory
domain, but the other Vista machine is and they both have problems.

My next step will be to reinstall the SP2 on the Server, but I do not think
that the SP did not install correctly, I suspect Microsoft made a change of
some sort within the Service Pack which is causing the issue.

I have read another article in a forum about someone else having the same
issue.

Does anyone have any other ideas on how to fix this problem?

Regards.


I

 

[UglyRat]

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