Slow access to mapped network drives

We have about 15 workstations/laptops here in the office running either Windows XP or 2000. Most of the computers are Windows XP running on Dell boxes (all very similar configurations). Some of these workstations access the network drives instantaneously, while others take up to a minute to access the drive. Since, my computer is one of the ones that works flawlessly, I don't know if this has also caused problems while opening or saving files. Though, I have not been notified of such problems, nor have I experienced opening or saving problems while running tests on these workstations. Are there certain network protocols or services that can cause speed problems? Does anyone know how I can make each workstation consistently fast?

FYI, all workstations are directly connected to the switch. The server is running NT Server 4.

Keith

 

Do these steps on all Xp and 2k workstations!

First! Go into Services and disable Indexing!
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Stop windows from searching for scheduled tasks.

Save by export the following registry key, then edit it

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace]

Find the key with this name:
D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF Delete only this!
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Soup up TCP/IP

Same for following save/export then edit to the following

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetBT\Parameters

modify these values as shown

BcastNameQueryCount=dword:00000001
BcastQueryTimeout=dword:00000020
NameSrvQueryCount=dword:00000001
NameSrvQueryTimeout=dword:00000020
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In NIC properties advanced
Disable Network Access Control using IEEE 802.1X

In network Properties.
if you have an Authentication setting then choose it and uncheck the Enable network access control using IEEE 802.1X box.

If you do or do not have the above then check for 802.1X in the NIC properties and disable it. Assuming you do not have Wireless on this machine.

Mike

 

Thanks, I'll try it out.

Keith

 

UPDATE

I found that this has been a common problem for a lot of people. There are many solutions that will be suggested, but they don't always work for each system. The most common response is to disable the scheduled task searching, but you'll find that this doesn't work for most people. The next solution is to disable Netware protocols. This seemed to work for a lot of people. I also found more than a handful of people that just give up and roll back to Windows 2000, which doesn't seem to have the same problem that Win XP has.

The solution that worked for me was to disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP

- Open LAN properties
- Select TCP/IP and click 'properties'
- Click the Advanced button
- Under the WINS tab, check 'Disable NetBIOS over TCP/IP



Now, all workstations are flying!

Keith