Slow listing of shared resource contents

I look after a number of small sites with a single Win Server 2003 standard
SP1 server as PDC and all clients are Win XP SP2. Most of theses sites are
experiencing long delays (20 - 40 secs) when opening the file>open facility
of an application or through explorer to browse the contents of mapped drives
on the server.

The delay also seems to affect one site where they are running a DOS app
located on the server in a window on the client; here they can enter several
keyboard commands and they seem to get queued as there is no response for a
similar length of time as above and then the commands are executed in quick
succesion.

I've trawled the usual resources and none of the KB articles seem to fit
exactly, although 915377 comes close. However, before I go further I thought
I would find out if there was a way to prove if that was the problem becuase
the KB article doesn't say what to look for in the logs etc.

Anyone know what to look for or has a better solution to the issue?

I appreciate your time spent reading this.

Clive

Also have had this happen on a clean 2003/xp network we were setting up.
Shares and mapped drives would take a while to display contents. The key was
turning off WebClient service system-wide.

We disabled the WebClient service on the server end, then changed "Default
Domain Security Settings" in the "System Services" subsection to disable it
upon startup, rebooted everyone via the SHUTDOWN -m \\computername -r
command in a batch file.....problem was solved.

Funny side note.....a server support person from MS said that WebClient was
a somewhat half-baked idea that never really got off the ground...not sure if
that's true, but funny coming from a MS person directly.

"G8EQZ" wrote:

> I look after a number of small sites with a single Win Server 2003 standard
> SP1 server as PDC and all clients are Win XP SP2. Most of theses sites are
> experiencing long delays (20 - 40 secs) when opening the file>open facility
> of an application or through explorer to browse the contents of mapped drives
> on the server.
>
> The delay also seems to affect one site where they are running a DOS app
> located on the server in a window on the client; here they can enter several
> keyboard commands and they seem to get queued as there is no response for a
> similar length of time as above and then the commands are executed in quick
> succesion.
>
> I've trawled the usual resources and none of the KB articles seem to fit
> exactly, although 915377 comes close. However, before I go further I thought
> I would find out if there was a way to prove if that was the problem becuase
> the KB article doesn't say what to look for in the logs etc.
>
> Anyone know what to look for or has a better solution to the issue?
>
> I appreciate your time spent reading this.
>
> Clive