W98 clients run fast-XP clients run slow!

Our WIN98 workstations, running the same applications as
our WINXP workstations, run the apps much faster!
Includes DBase programs, Excel & Word. Our server has
Windows 2003 Server, Enterprise edition. Is there a
registry setting we can change to speed up the XP stations?

Example: On XP workstation, save an Excel file to server
takes several seconds, save it locally takes an instant.
On the WIN98 station, the same file saves instantly to
server.

JK,

Is this in general of the performance. Just out of curiosity is DNS set up
correctly such that windows XP has the internal IP of the server ?

XP is very reliant on DNS and you WILL experience slowdowns if XP has to
fall back to NetBIOS (NetBT) to getname resolution. Let me say this, the
moment XP finds the name and "creates" the flow to the share then it is just
as fast as win98. I believe the time you feeling is the lookup time and
negotiating time.

Regards,