Mark Pewsey
May 22nd 03, 10:27 AM
Hi,
I have a PC that dual boots Win95 (for the kid's games) and Win2K (for
web site development).
It connects to a switch/router unit for shared Internet access, and so I
can reach it from my WinXP Home machine, which is where I do the web
developing from - both PCs access the network at 100/full.
I run PWS/IIS on both OS's, with identical shares so I can access my
files even if the lad wants Win95 up so he can play his games.
I have to do this as WinXP Home does not support PWS/IIS which I need
for Active Server Pages.
Problem is that accessing it's files from the XP machine across the LAN
is nice and fast when Win95 is booted, but really slow when Win2K is up
(using Windows Explorer). Navigating the file structure is reasonable -
it's actually opening or copying files that is slow.
Coming the other way (reading files on the XP box from either Win95 or
Win2K) seems OK.
All was OK until I decided to re-install Win2K from scratch recently, so
I'm pretty sure the problem is there, but I have read that XP's Task
Scheduler can cause this as it checks for tasks on the remote machine.
However I've not made any changes on the XP PC.
I've tried stopping Task Scheduler on both machines anyway, but it seems
to make little difference.
Anyone have any ideas please?
Regards,
Mark Pewsey
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I have a PC that dual boots Win95 (for the kid's games) and Win2K (for
web site development).
It connects to a switch/router unit for shared Internet access, and so I
can reach it from my WinXP Home machine, which is where I do the web
developing from - both PCs access the network at 100/full.
I run PWS/IIS on both OS's, with identical shares so I can access my
files even if the lad wants Win95 up so he can play his games.
I have to do this as WinXP Home does not support PWS/IIS which I need
for Active Server Pages.
Problem is that accessing it's files from the XP machine across the LAN
is nice and fast when Win95 is booted, but really slow when Win2K is up
(using Windows Explorer). Navigating the file structure is reasonable -
it's actually opening or copying files that is slow.
Coming the other way (reading files on the XP box from either Win95 or
Win2K) seems OK.
All was OK until I decided to re-install Win2K from scratch recently, so
I'm pretty sure the problem is there, but I have read that XP's Task
Scheduler can cause this as it checks for tasks on the remote machine.
However I've not made any changes on the XP PC.
I've tried stopping Task Scheduler on both machines anyway, but it seems
to make little difference.
Anyone have any ideas please?
Regards,
Mark Pewsey
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