Win98 Client PC browse very slow

We recently migrated from Novell 5 on an old Server with Win98 & XP Clients
to a full domain with Windows 2000 (DC & Exchange) & Windows 2003 Server
(Brand new powerful DC) with Win98 & XP Clients.

The Windows 2000 Server was the original DC when running Exchange & running
Novell for File Serving. The New Win2003 DC is now the file server.

The XP Clients 'seem' to work ok but the Win98 clients when connecting to
and browsing mapped drives are slow, slower than when they where connecting
to the OLD SLOW Novell 5 Server. Naturally staff are complaining "Give us
back the old server etc"

What should I do/look for to improve the Win98 clients speed. They are all
DHCP and I run Wins & DNS and they can all run a login script. Should I
concentrate on Wins & DNS or am I missing an option in DHCP or anything else
anybody can think of.

Thanks

Not sure on this one but I'll take a stab anyway. I think it has to do with
enabling Netbios over TCP/IP. In DHCP there is a way to set the node type
for older (Win 95, Win 98, NT4) machines. It is option 46 node type.

Hope this helps.

"Robh" wrote:

> We recently migrated from Novell 5 on an old Server with Win98 & XP Clients
> to a full domain with Windows 2000 (DC & Exchange) & Windows 2003 Server
> (Brand new powerful DC) with Win98 & XP Clients.
>
> The Windows 2000 Server was the original DC when running Exchange & running
> Novell for File Serving. The New Win2003 DC is now the file server.
>
> The XP Clients 'seem' to work ok but the Win98 clients when connecting to
> and browsing mapped drives are slow, slower than when they where connecting
> to the OLD SLOW Novell 5 Server. Naturally staff are complaining "Give us
> back the old server etc"
>
> What should I do/look for to improve the Win98 clients speed. They are all
> DHCP and I run Wins & DNS and they can all run a login script. Should I
> concentrate on Wins & DNS or am I missing an option in DHCP or anything else
> anybody can think of.
>
> Thanks