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by omb

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On our peer-to-peer network several dirs on W2K clients have been shared. These dirs contain many files (1000s).

When browsing to these shares from W2K clients, it can take several mins to display the contents of the dirs. However, when browsingfrom W98 clients, the contents are displayed immediately.

Any ideas?

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by quintar51

Check the number of protocols on the w2k clients, and on the win98 clients. You can get away using only TCP/IP as your only protocol. Others might suggest NetBeui, but I would rather stick with TCP/IP, because you'll also be able to access the internet.

by quintar51

Check the number of protocols on the w2k clients, and on the win98 clients. The more protocols you have, the slower network browsing will be. You can get away using only TCP/IP as your only protocol. Others might suggest NetBeui, but I would rather stick with TCP/IP, because you'll also be able to access the internet.

by riverfreight

Are they unique to W98, (whatever that is?)and thus not immediatly accessable to W2K, (Whatever that is?) without translation or language, system convertion.

by simon

Do you have any collisions through the Hub? are the network cards using the same speed 10 base or 100 base?

Just a few thoughts I thought I would chuck in.

by davidinh

Try to map network drive on the client computer
and you also have to run this command on win2k
click start > run > enter sfc /scannow

because, I thought some reason while these machines communication together the winsock mess up so just use that command to solve your problem

good luck

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