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by davidr

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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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by bobho

I had a similar situation and here's what I did:

-in the connection settinngs for your winxp machine go to the advanced tcpip settings and click on the DNS tab. In the area for DNS server addresses make the first entry your dhcp server (w2k server, router, whatever is handing out ip addresses). Make your secondary and tertiary DNS servers what your current primary annd secondary entries are now. Also make sure that the checkbox for "Register this connection's address in DNS" toward the bottom of the dialog box is not checked.

Once I did this my XP machine was blazing along as fast as my 98, ME and w2k machines. Don't know why so don't ask me. I came across this somewhere a while back but I don't have the reference to it anymore (I don't think I could have come up with this on my own).

See ya,

RW

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