delay while accessing a mapped volume

Hallo @ll,

sometimes when i doubleclick on a mapped network drive a 10 second delay
will appear.

The Client is a Windows XP with SP2, the Servers are Windows NT and Windows
Server 2003. Both of these shared folders of these NOS platforms show the
same effect.

I made a network capture with etherreal a i found out that first time the
client attempts a connecting the share he will recieve the following SMB
error messages:

STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE
STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST

After that a "Close Request" and a "Close Respond" follows.

10-12 seconds later, the client tries to connect again and the path will
appear as normally.

After this procedure the problem will arrise if the connection isn't use
permanently.

I have tested to turn of the Symantec AntiVirus Auto-Protect. I have alsow
followed the instructions at the KB article 829700.

Can anyone help me?

Hey Sascha,

Those errors are NT related usually refering to I/O of thr hard disk.
Usually this means the drive went unavailable. Why would it go unavailable?
Well, typically it's do to a bad hard drive, bad blocks/sectors, bad disk
array, or bad controller card. I wish I could give you better news. You
might want to try doing some maintenance / repair work... and maybe make
sure your caught up in your backups (just in case).

Hope this helps,

--
Louis Vitiello Jr.
------------------------------
MCSE, MCSA, MCP, A+/N+
ERCP XP Pro / Net Concepts



"Sascha Haselbauer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message news:2E1A8D8C-F387-48B3-9D4C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hallo @ll,
>
> sometimes when i doubleclick on a mapped network drive a 10 second delay
> will appear.
>
> The Client is a Windows XP with SP2, the Servers are Windows NT and
> Windows
> Server 2003. Both of these shared folders of these NOS platforms show the
> same effect.
>
> I made a network capture with etherreal a i found out that first time the
> client attempts a connecting the share he will recieve the following SMB
> error messages:
>
> STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE
> STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST
>
> After that a "Close Request" and a "Close Respond" follows.
>
> 10-12 seconds later, the client tries to connect again and the path will
> appear as normally.
>
> After this procedure the problem will arrise if the connection isn't use
> permanently.
>
> I have tested to turn of the Symantec AntiVirus Auto-Protect. I have alsow
> followed the instructions at the KB article 829700.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
>
>

Hi,

the error messages that i have mentioned are from the SMB protocoll frames!

I have tested to access the network drive with a Windows 2000 Computer and
it works normaly. It seems to be a bug in Windows XP.

Sascha Haselbauer

"Louis Vitiello Jr." schrieb:

> Hey Sascha,
>
> Those errors are NT related usually refering to I/O of thr hard disk.
> Usually this means the drive went unavailable. Why would it go unavailable?
> Well, typically it's do to a bad hard drive, bad blocks/sectors, bad disk
> array, or bad controller card. I wish I could give you better news. You
> might want to try doing some maintenance / repair work... and maybe make
> sure your caught up in your backups (just in case).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> --
> Louis Vitiello Jr.
> ------------------------------
> MCSE, MCSA, MCP, A+/N+
> ERCP XP Pro / Net Concepts
>
>
>
> "Sascha Haselbauer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:2E1A8D8C-F387-48B3-9D4C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hallo @ll,
> >
> > sometimes when i doubleclick on a mapped network drive a 10 second delay
> > will appear.
> >
> > The Client is a Windows XP with SP2, the Servers are Windows NT and
> > Windows
> > Server 2003. Both of these shared folders of these NOS platforms show the
> > same effect.
> >
> > I made a network capture with etherreal a i found out that first time the
> > client attempts a connecting the share he will recieve the following SMB
> > error messages:
> >
> > STATUS_NO_SUCH_DEVICE
> > STATUS_INVALID_DEVICE_REQUEST
> >
> > After that a "Close Request" and a "Close Respond" follows.
> >
> > 10-12 seconds later, the client tries to connect again and the path will
> > appear as normally.
> >
> > After this procedure the problem will arrise if the connection isn't use
> > permanently.
> >
> > I have tested to turn of the Symantec AntiVirus Auto-Protect. I have alsow
> > followed the instructions at the KB article 829700.
> >
> > Can anyone help me?
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>