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October 22, 2004 at 02:21 PM
davidr

Slow network access

by davidr . Updated 22 years ago

I have client who runs a 7 pc workgroup. He uses a win2k server for a file and print server and various MS OS’s on the pc’s to connect to it. He recently bought a new Dell with XP Home. I have gotten it connect to the network and added to the workgroup and he can access the file server, but the response times are slow. It can take up to 30-40 seconds to open or save a word document. This also happens with other programs like Adobe, or even windows explorer. I have had him try different speed and duplex settings with 100 half working the best. Are there any other settings that need to be tweaked? Is there an incompatibility between win2k server and XP home that anyone knows of. I know here in the office we had to change the requiresignorseal settings in the registry on XP Pro to make it talk correctly to a NT 4.0 server.

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