Network Device Response Slow with MN-700

I have recently purchased and installed a MN-700 and set
up a Workggroup with 4 computers running Windows XP.
Internet access is working fine and file sharing works
well (and quickly) as long as I click through the "View
Workgroup Computers" to get to the hard drives on the
other computers. If I don't take this route and just
click on the computer name and hard drive icons, the
response time is very slow. The workgroup seems
to "forget" where the other devices are even though it
has found them and accessed them at high speed
previously. In fact, a couple of scheduled backup tasks
that I run are not able to run under the scheduler now
because the target device on the other compute is not
found. I can run the tasks manually, but it take a long
time for the network to find the target computer.

I will appreciate any advice/pointers you can give me.
Thank you.

and seesm to take to "forget" where the other computes
are

Trying directly mapping the various hard drives as
network drives. I do this and get instant response when
accessing them.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have recently purchased and installed a MN-700 and set
>up a Workggroup with 4 computers running Windows XP.
>Internet access is working fine and file sharing works
>well (and quickly) as long as I click through the "View
>Workgroup Computers" to get to the hard drives on the
>other computers. If I don't take this route and just
>click on the computer name and hard drive icons, the
>response time is very slow. The workgroup seems
>to "forget" where the other devices are even though it
>has found them and accessed them at high speed
>previously. In fact, a couple of scheduled backup tasks
>that I run are not able to run under the scheduler now
>because the target device on the other compute is not
>found. I can run the tasks manually, but it take a long
>time for the network to find the target computer.
>
>I will appreciate any advice/pointers you can give me.
>Thank you.
>
> and seesm to take to "forget" where the other computes
>are
>.
>