> Just as a FYI, I found the VPN to be horribly slow when doing file > operations from within Network Neighborhood. If I located the > resource, then mapped it as a drive, the same operations were much > faster when accessed via the mapped drive.
Mapping a drive is much faster and cleaner because it is a "mounted drive" instead of a broadcast type connection. This can be compared to using a switch instead of a hub on a network. Win2K and XP have combined WINS with their DNS breaking several RFC's and generally making a total mess of the SMB protocol. In a mixed environment of using any OS that is not 2K/XP with 2K/XP, the only reliable success I've found is mapping the 2K/XP shares. WINS is just a dynamic lmhosts-type mapping that is created by the WINS server from broadcasts on the subnet. Your probably not going to have any luck unless you set up WINS and simply map all shares out across the subnet. Unless of course, you can get M$ to stick with their own standards. I've had real bad luck with form of straight bcast resolution and setting hosts/lmhosts files on over 20 computers is too much work to maintain. I dunno unless you can work a hosts/lmhosts list into a login script for certain workgroups or something along that line. -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
