Hi,
i have 2 comps networked over a 100mb netgear switch. Until last night i had one computer with w2ksp1 and the other with win98se. Everything was fine, they could communicate with each other at high speeds and everything was kosher. Just yesterday i decided to install w2k on the 98 machine. I did a clean install and everything appeared to be ok. Except when i tried to access a share on the newly installed w2k machine. On a folder with close to 7000 files it takes forever to list. I thought that maybe windows was using the tcp protocol to connect between them but i disabled tcp/ip on one of the machines and the problem still existed. I was wondering if there is anything i could do to fix that besides going back to 98 or me. as for network specs, both machines are using tcp/ip and netbui. tcpip for internet access through my cable modem. and netbui for local file and print sharing. I have tried just about everything to remedy this but at point i am willing to go back to win98 just so it is quicker when browsing my shares.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
tom
Update
after some more playing around i found out this.
it is only slow when i have the remote drive mapped and i try to browse the folder that way. when i browse directly through my network places it is fast. and if i share the dir with the 7000 files and map it locally to a drive it is fast as well. Oh well,i guess ill never no why it is slow.
i have 2 comps networked over a 100mb netgear switch. Until last night i had one computer with w2ksp1 and the other with win98se. Everything was fine, they could communicate with each other at high speeds and everything was kosher. Just yesterday i decided to install w2k on the 98 machine. I did a clean install and everything appeared to be ok. Except when i tried to access a share on the newly installed w2k machine. On a folder with close to 7000 files it takes forever to list. I thought that maybe windows was using the tcp protocol to connect between them but i disabled tcp/ip on one of the machines and the problem still existed. I was wondering if there is anything i could do to fix that besides going back to 98 or me. as for network specs, both machines are using tcp/ip and netbui. tcpip for internet access through my cable modem. and netbui for local file and print sharing. I have tried just about everything to remedy this but at point i am willing to go back to win98 just so it is quicker when browsing my shares.
any help would be greatly appreciated.
tom
Update
after some more playing around i found out this.
it is only slow when i have the remote drive mapped and i try to browse the folder that way. when i browse directly through my network places it is fast. and if i share the dir with the 7000 files and map it locally to a drive it is fast as well. Oh well,i guess ill never no why it is slow.
