A fiver says this is something related to the server, not the network per

se. Off the top of my head check these:

- DNS - The server should be pointing to itself and the clients to the

server for this, not something in the outside world.

- Check the SBS2003 security settings - does setting them to Low make any

difference?

- Also look at MSKB articles 822219 and 321169

Chester Friesen wrote:

> I am searching for ideas to diagnose slow network speeds. The server

> is an Intel CA810E mobo, P3-1000Mhz, 512MB Ram (maximum for mobo). I

> replaced the old HDD's with new Seagate 37GB SCSI with Adaptec 29320A

> controller. At the same time I replaced NT 4 with Windows SBS 2003.

> This is in a dentist office with 10 workstations. I used timethis.exe

> to test file transfers, between 2 workstations it was fairly fast,

> but from the server to a workstation it takes about 4 times longer.

> They are using SoftDent software, plus others related to the dental

> industry. I have uninstalled antivirus, set permissions, etc. to no

> avail. Also disabled LMHosts lookup for the NIC. Disabling NetBIOS

> over TCP/IP kills the connection, that may be what I need to chase

> down why. OK, does anyone have any experience similar to this, will

> gigabit NICs, router, help me? Or anything else to try?

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Brian Abbott

ACA Systems

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