OK, I'm at my wits end and tried just about everything
suggested in the Knowledge base. 5 Windows XP
workstations take between 8 and 15 seconds to open Word
and Excel documents, which all other machines open near-
instantaneously. The docs were created in Office 97 and
all machines are now running Office XP, and the NT/2000
machines are fine, just the 5 new XP CAD stations. I've
disabled Oplocks, I've installed SP's and hot fixes,
disabled kernal mode filter driver for Backup Exec and
McAfee, lots of re-boots and no difference.
Performance profiling shows that the workstation is 99%
idle, no network traffic, just waiting for the server to
respond.
Server: Intel Vero Beach, Dual Xeon HT, 1024 GB, 1Gbit
backbone, raid.
Workstations: Tyan Thunder, Dual Athlon 2400, 2048MB, 3Com
10/100, Quadro FX, uSCSI. All latest drivers and
patches. The users of these stations are all local
administrators, and I've even tried upping them to domain
admins.
HELP!!!!
John Bilton
Richard Prossor - 27 Nov 2003 11:20 GMT
what speed are the network cards set to on the slow XP machines?
There is some advice on setting them to 100Mb full duplex and not
auto-sense. However when I tried this I had the symptoms you are showing and
my switches had collision errors. I changed them back to autosense and the
problem disappeared.
Richard
> OK, I'm at my wits end and tried just about everything
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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 27 Nov 2003 12:54 GMT
I'll give that a whirl. They are set to autosense *I
think*, but...
John Bilton
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Javier Gomez - 27 Nov 2003 14:10 GMT
AFAIK-> The advice moslty given here is to run them on half or full
duplex... just get them off autosense. So, if you are having problems with
full duplex (because your switch doesn't work well with it), change it to
half duplex.
I think that if you know that they don't work well in full duplex... then
more reason to change them to half duplex permanently.

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Chad A Gross [SBS-MVP] - 28 Nov 2003 05:57 GMT
Hi John -
Are you also experiencing slow logons with these XPs? Veirfy that they are
correctly configured for DNS. They should be pointing to your SBS (and only
your SBS, not your ISP) for DNS.

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Scott - 30 Nov 2003 21:13 GMT
Hello John,
Are your XP machines running SP1?
if so the problem maybe due to a hitch with SMB signing. This can be turned
off on the server
Scott.
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