Windows XP Pro Opens Network Drives Slowly Running Novell Netware 5

[Guest]

We have a Novell network running Netware 5. Our Windows 3.1 / 9x machines have connected very easily and seemlessly with our network. When we started installing Windows XP machines we noticed that network drives opened very slowly the first time a request was made to access that resource. Some machines are worse than others, but every single XP machine has this problem when accessing network drives on our Lan. Has anyone else discovered this

Thanks

 

[Arvind Murching [MSFT]]

From a previous posting by David Kruse [MSFT]:

Can you check if the webclient service is running? Webclient allows you to
access DAV shares via HTTP as a normal file system. However, the timeouts
for DAV/HTTP are a bit different than that of traditional SMB, which can
result in what appears to be hangs. There has been some updates that can be
applied to the client as described in the KB articles below. Also, you can
try disabling the webclient service in the short term to see if that solves
the issue.

The reason many people see this on just the first access is, after the first
access the UNC providers cache the knowledge that "this share is handled by
SMB, not DAV" and DAV is not involved until this cache expires.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812924

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312181

Type the following command to determine whether webclient is running:

sc queryex webclient

If the STATE shows RUNNING, then run the following command to disable it:

sc config webclient start= disabled

The initial connect issue should not occur on the next boot. To avoid a
reboot, you could run the following command:

sc stop webclient

Hope this helps
Arvind

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the response. I tried it and thought it worked as my access we greatly improved. I disabled the webclient on another machine and the problem did not go away. The delay only comes the first time, so I do believe indexing has something to do with it. Are there any more things I can try

Thanks
Jason

 

[Guest]

In trying to resolve a printing problem, it appears that the issue is with the Novell Client as the Microsoft Netware Client works fine.

Thanks for your assistance.

Jason