Slow response time

Great, thanks William. I will give this a try.


"William Smith" <mecklists.TakeThisOut@REMOVETHIS.mn.rr.com> wrote in message
news:mecklists-1725F1.23112028052005@msnews.microsoft.com...
> In article <OPmmouqYFHA.3152.TakeThisOut@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>,
> "Shaun Pillay" <shaunk.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> We have recently completed a network project that consists of Windows
>> 2000
>> professional clients, Mac OS 9 clients a Windows 2000 Server DC and a
>> Windows Server 2003 file server. At the moment, all works fine except
>> that
>> users that are running the Mac's are complaining of very slow response
>> time
>> when they try to access files or folders on the Windows Server 2003
>> server.
>> Network speeds, packets etc have been analysed and all looks okay.
>
> Hi Shaun!
>
> Can you tell if your Macs are connecting via Appletalk or TCP/IP? TCP/IP
> should be much faster.
>
> You can force a TCP/IP connection by opening the Chooser, selecting the
> AppleShare icon, clicking the IP Address button and entering either an
> IP address or server name. If this fails, then you're Macs are probably
> connecting via AppleTalk and you'll need to troubleshoot your IP problem.
>
> To quickly check the method your Macs are using, mount a server volume
> on the Mac, select it and choose File --> Get Info. It will tell you you
> either have an Appletalk or TCP/IP connection.
>
> Hope this helps! bill
> --
> William M. Smith
> (Microsoft Interop MVP)

We are having a problem here also. One of my networks has approx 25 devices,
12 PC's running XP2, 7 Mac's OSX 10.3.9, the rest are printers. The server is
a PC (1.8ghz) running Win2k4. This system has been working fine for two
years. A month ago I was able to upgrade the Macs to G5 OSX 10.3.9. Since the
upgrade, first the Macs then the PCs are experincing a three to five minute
hesitation when interacting with the server, with the exception of logging
on, which is normal. Even the printers are beginning to demonstrate a
hesitation. The hesitation occures when they try to copy files to or from the
server, when they do searches on the server, and when they work on a file
stored on the server.

Everyone is connected at 100mb with a new Netgear switch. During peak times
the switch show only 10% usage rates across the network. Spanning tree
protocol is shutoff. And all the Cat5 cable has been tested. We use the
server as a shared drive, having three physical drives, one 120gb, two 80gb.
I have the Macs logging on through AFP. I have defragged all the drives with
no improvement on that hesitation. Reviewing the logs show nothing to
indicate what the problem(s) might be. I am currently at a loss as to what
might be causing the delays. It seems as thought something has to timeout
first before allowing the “action” to continue. Any Ideas?