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Very slow Net Send

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by able-admin

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when I net send a message to any user or computer from the pdc the message is "instant". The console window pops up and then disapears within a second.

However, when any user in the domain uses net send, the message take an average of 10 to 15 seconds to send. Is this normal?

Messenger service is running on all machines.

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by samlowrey

Are you sending it by name or IP address? If by name, I imagine the extra time is to resolve the name which the PDC can do faster locally because it contains the browse list. Just a shot in the dark.

I have played around with Net Send and found it to be slow more often than not. I always found that strange because I expect it to be very lean and mean with no overhead like a bloated GUI program.

by able-admin

Tried both ways actually. No noticable difference. I also noticed that the one xp box (in a sea of 2000's) seems to run through it quite quickly.

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