I have a network in the US and a network in India that are connected by firewall/firewall VPN.
Users are seeing very slow response times when they try to access network shares accross this great distance. I have pointed a sniffer at this traffic and I see a huge number of back-and-forth communication for relatively trivial actions (the order of 60 round trips just to highlight a file in Windows Explorer, taking about a minute).
These are Windows XP machines accessing shares using network neighborhood browsing to locate files.
Does anyone know of a way to reduce network traffic for simple share browsing? I think I once heard of some way to cache directory structure – does anyone know how to do that?
