2003 Terminal Services - Client Disk Drives Slow

I have a 2003 Terminal Server. Dual Zeon 2GB ram, RAID 5
array etc. running Terminal Services with about 30 users.

The problem is that when a user tries to access their
local drives that have been auto mapped by the Terminal
Services Client, it takes forever to copy something. This
happens to all of my users regardless of what OS the local
system is running, and regardless of the speed of the
system.

If I just share a folder on their local system and map
that to their TS session I don't have any problem, bt this
is not a solution for us.

Any thoughts on this?

We used to use Citrix with Windows 2000 TS and the drive
redirection worked great, but we droppedit because 2003
supposedly had the same feature.

I have never seem the built in local drive mapping work well, if at all,
without using Citrix.

--
Scott Harding
MCSE, MCSA, A+, Network+
Microsoft MVP - Windows NT Server

"Christopher Good" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:1ff0f01c45891$d96e4040$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have a 2003 Terminal Server. Dual Zeon 2GB ram, RAID 5
> array etc. running Terminal Services with about 30 users.
>
> The problem is that when a user tries to access their
> local drives that have been auto mapped by the Terminal
> Services Client, it takes forever to copy something. This
> happens to all of my users regardless of what OS the local
> system is running, and regardless of the speed of the
> system.
>
> If I just share a folder on their local system and map
> that to their TS session I don't have any problem, bt this
> is not a solution for us.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> We used to use Citrix with Windows 2000 TS and the drive
> redirection worked great, but we droppedit because 2003
> supposedly had the same feature.
>

This is due to the fact that RDP is not tuned for file and folder
redirection.. It is provided as a feature, but will be much slower
than using a more native implementation of file transfer (i.e.,
SMB/FTP/or even WebDAV)

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On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:48:11 -0700, "Christopher Good"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have a 2003 Terminal Server. Dual Zeon 2GB ram, RAID 5
>array etc. running Terminal Services with about 30 users.
>
>The problem is that when a user tries to access their
>local drives that have been auto mapped by the Terminal
>Services Client, it takes forever to copy something. This
>happens to all of my users regardless of what OS the local
>system is running, and regardless of the speed of the
>system.
>
>If I just share a folder on their local system and map
>that to their TS session I don't have any problem, bt this
>is not a solution for us.
>
>Any thoughts on this?
>
>We used to use Citrix with Windows 2000 TS and the drive
>redirection worked great, but we droppedit because 2003
>supposedly had the same feature.