XP slow file sharing

[John]

Hello All,

I have 12 workstations that connect to a Windows 2003 Server file server for
access to shared data files used by 3 applications: BusinessVision, Goldmine
and MS Access.

These applications open much faster on the Windows 2000 Pro (and one XP
Home) machines than they do on newer, Windows XP PRO SP2 boxes. XP firewall
is off on all XP Pro stations. People are all excited to get new
computers/OSs but disappointed when they find they have to wait way longer
for their main apps to open. The XP Pro stations are all newer computers
with better CPU and RAM specs than the Win 2K boxes. Internet and email are
fine, quick as can be - it just seems to affect applications that use data
stored on the file sharing server.

I have seen a couple of MS knowledge base articles that seem to describe the
problem but the solutions suggested either aren't relevant or haven't
worked.

What can I do speed up the XP stations? Are there newsgroups better suited
for this question?

Thanks in advance for any and all replies.

Brent

 

[Zadok]

Hello All,

I have 12 workstations that connect to a Windows 2003 Server file server for
access to shared data files used by 3 applications: BusinessVision, Goldmine
and MS Access.

These applications open much faster on the Windows 2000 Pro (and one XP
Home) machines than they do on newer, Windows XP PRO SP2 boxes. XP firewall
is off on all XP Pro stations. People are all excited to get new
computers/OSs but disappointed when they find they have to wait way longer
for their main apps to open. The XP Pro stations are all newer computers
with better CPU and RAM specs than the Win 2K boxes. Internet and email are
fine, quick as can be - it just seems to affect applications that use data
stored on the file sharing server.

I have seen a couple of MS knowledge base articles that seem to describe the
problem but the solutions suggested either aren't relevant or haven't
worked.

What can I do speed up the XP stations? Are there newsgroups better suited
for this question?

Thanks in advance for any and all replies.

Brent

Since you got the name right...
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/834350/en-us
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft
products (Why am I not surprised?)
Any errors in the logs?

-- Zadok
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