slow opening folder with a lot of files over network

[silvere]

I started a thread about dns because I thought that might be my issue, but I don't think that's the case now. I'll paste some of my posts below.

I'm having troubles with the xp clients on a win2k server taking forever to access folders with a large amount of files.

I copied a 9mb file on to the client from the server with the default settings and it transfer almost instantly. under cmd I opened the folder with the 2131 files and they also displayed instantly...but still when I try to open from cad or browse to that folder on the mapped drive it takes 30 secs - 1 min to open

when I open the folder with autocad 2k it displays the files immediately, but with autocad 14 or through my computer it takes a minute.

Slainte35 & ksukenny walked me through setting up the dns correctly, but that didn't solve the problem.

any ideas?

Thanks
Andy

 

[silvere]

any help on this one? I've been searching google groups and other sites for over 7 hours with no luck.

Thanks
Andy

 

[Andreh]

Do you have any mapped drives on your PC that are dead ends? I.e. to PC's that are turned off or no longer in existance.

I have found on my network that if you try to browse the network when the PC you are working on has a mapped drive to a computer that is turned off, this sort of time lag can happen.

Regards.

 

[silvere]

no, we only have 3 mapped drives. thanks though.

Andy