XP Box on a Win 2000 server network

[Jim T.]

We recently upgraded from Win NT 4.0 to 2000 server. We
have two XP Pro boxes on our network that worked fine
under NT 4.0. Now that we have converted to 2000 server,
the XP boxes have an unacceptable delay when first
accessing a mapped network drive where the data resides
on the 2000 server. Once the connection has been made,
subsequent accesses to that directory are fine. However,
when the XP box has been idle for a while, the symptoms
repeat themselves.

This appears to only be happening with the XP machines.
The other PCs on the network are either Win 98 or ME.

Any idea what is causing this and how to correct it.
Please feel free either to this or directly to my
personal e-mail at (e-mail address removed).

Thank you,

J.T.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Are all servers and workstations pointing *only* to the
internal/AD-integrated DNS server in their IP properties?
Have you disabled autosense on the NICs on these and all other computers,
and locked them down at a specific speed/duplex setting?