Do any Ireland/UK members read PC Pro magazine? There's a column in it
by a guy called Steve Cassidy who is a network consultant and
troubleshooter and it usually makes for fascinating and enlightening
reading. His latest column is about a 50-user network that he was called
in to look at which should have been lightning fast but that slowed down
for periods of ten minutes at a time for no apparent reason. It turned
out that they were a design house and had many huge graphic files on big
network drives. Every so often a few XP users would browse into these
network folders containing hundreds of graphics, and the whole thing
would grind to a halt as the XP machines built thumbnails and indexes
and looked down into subfolders to cache things further. Also there was
an old Novell box referred to in login scripts and shortcuts which he
found disconnected from the network and in the back of a broom cupboard.
So all the machines were spending tens of seconds trying to find the
shares on it every time they booted.
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-----Original Message-----
From: profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-bounces AT leafe D.O.T com]
On Behalf Of James E. Harvey
Sent: 28 May 2004 15:45
To: profoxtech@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Solution to ten minute network delay found
A few weeks ago I started a discussion about our XP OS computers
experiencing a ten minute delay when the user tried to run a exe on the
server.
Only the XP computers behaved this way and it started after we installed
SP2 on our Win2000 Server.
The files we were trying to open are in a shared folder called "Public".
We finally called Microsoft support ($245.00) and through
troubleshooting, trial and error, and just plain dumb luck, we found
that when we changed the share name to "Public2" the XP pc's would now
open the applications normally (a few seconds, rather than ten minutes).
The MS tech support person had no idea why this would work, or why it
didn't work in the first place.
We are an old Novel shop and the share name "Public" was a hold over
from the old Novel days.
This seems extremely unusual and I'm open to any explanations anyone
might have as to what's going on.
James E. Harvey
Corresponding Office/M.I.S.
Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc.
jharvey AT hanoverpa D.O.T com
717-637-8931
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