Re: OT XP/NT4 Question

[David Sussman <davids@xxxxxxx>]

I also get this mind-numbing wait from an XP client to W2k server when
opening Word docs, and I've yet to find a cure. Check out
www.tweakxp.com
for some good tips on XP perf, but there isn't one for that particular
problem.

d

"Ian Lowe" <ian@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:<6553BCF3E25DD2118F0A00AA00AE6AAA4449C9@tigger>...
> Yes, *BUT* expect it to be mind-numbingly unreliable and slow.
> 
> On our home network, we have a W2K Server, an NT4 box, and XP-Pro
and
> W98
> Clients.
> 
> XP Pro is the most unreliable client yet! it does *something* every
now
> and
> then when browsing a share, and throws Megs at a time across the
wire
> for
> god-knows-what.
> 
> Myself and Jenni staged out XP-Pro "upgrade" I went first,
and found
> that
> opening office documents took *forever* from the W2K server. Jenni's
W98
> and
> W2K installs were lightning fast, XP pro was plain crap.
> 
> Now Jenni has updated, she gets the same behaviour...
> 
> needless to say, there is no Technote that explains, or even admits
this
> behaviour.
> 
> As an aside, make sure you turn off "off-line files". this
little gem
> basically makes XP copy *EVERYTHING* you access on the share to
the
> local
> machine.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: paul_watkin [mailto:paul_watkin@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 21 May 2002 16:52
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] OT XP/NT4 Question
> 
> 
> Can anyone tell me if XP Pro can connect to an NT server and NTFS
> share?
> 
> Am getting new laptop which will on the odd  occasion need to
connect
> to my network and need to specify either XP/2000/NT when they
order
> it.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul
> 
> 
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