Josh
January 9th 04, 10:53 PM
I've run into an interesting problem with a couple XP
machines that access a mapped drive on a windows 2000
server. After the XP clients have been on for a couple
hours they experience terrible performance degredation
when accessing the mapped drive. It takes up to a minute
for explorer to display the contents of the drive and if
you open a file by double clicking the resulting
application usually freezes and takes explorer with it.
Once this starts happening it continues without fail
until you reboot the client. There are several XP
clients in this environment but only two exhibit this
behavior (oddly one is the oldest and and the other is
the newest XP machine in the office). Both the clients
and the server are up to date with the newest SP and crit
updates (and most of the recommended ones as well). They
also have the newest nic drivers.
I have done a virus scan and neither server nor client
seems compromised. I also disable the virus scanners
just to make sure the slowdown wasn't the result of them
scaning the network drive (didn't appear to be the
case). I have tried several tweaks I have found online
including disabling scheduled tasks and making sure the
passwords weren't in the managed password list, to no
avail. If anyone has any suggestions I would be most
appreciative.
- Josh
machines that access a mapped drive on a windows 2000
server. After the XP clients have been on for a couple
hours they experience terrible performance degredation
when accessing the mapped drive. It takes up to a minute
for explorer to display the contents of the drive and if
you open a file by double clicking the resulting
application usually freezes and takes explorer with it.
Once this starts happening it continues without fail
until you reboot the client. There are several XP
clients in this environment but only two exhibit this
behavior (oddly one is the oldest and and the other is
the newest XP machine in the office). Both the clients
and the server are up to date with the newest SP and crit
updates (and most of the recommended ones as well). They
also have the newest nic drivers.
I have done a virus scan and neither server nor client
seems compromised. I also disable the virus scanners
just to make sure the slowdown wasn't the result of them
scaning the network drive (didn't appear to be the
case). I have tried several tweaks I have found online
including disabling scheduled tasks and making sure the
passwords weren't in the managed password list, to no
avail. If anyone has any suggestions I would be most
appreciative.
- Josh