The clients are all on Windows 7 laptops, joined to a Server 2008 R2 domain. They are all connected via Ethernet with a gigabit Dlink switch. The office only has 8 staff members.
The server is also plugged in directly to the same Dlink switch. It is a flat, single subnet network. The users just use the server as a file server for quickbooks excel, and pdfs. The office has file transfer rates of roughly 50-80Mbps. I also have the same issue in my office. I've got a server 2k8r2 virtualized on ESXi 5.1 as a file server. HP Procurve gigabit switch that my workstation and server plug into. There is no teaming on that server. The server had a NAS back end. All datastores live on the NAS. The NAS has LACP enabled. I get file transfers of roughly 100Mbps but the opening\closing of files is ridiculously slow. I don't recall when it started happening but I know it wasn't always like this. Once I disabled SMB2.0 on my w7 box, everything started to open and close normally. I have been reading and it could be waiting for some sort of time out before the files actually open but that's all I got out of it. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Andrew S. Baker Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 4:00 PM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 file transfer latency More info about the network and clients, please... ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker<http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi All, I previously posted a message about slow file opening and saving in office 2010 between W7 and Server 2k8r2 but had no replies. I did further testing and it seems to occur more than just office files. It occurs with any "opening" or "closing/saving" of files on the server. Once it is opened, it works fine. There was a hotfix that was supposed to resolve this issue, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/981711, but I couldn't even get that installed. I follow some other posts and disabled SMB 2.0 of my W7 client. The latency went away. Ideally, I'd like to have SMB 2.0 enabled. I'm sure someone here on this board has had this issue? Can anyone shed some light on what they did to resolve this? I'm about ready to open a support case with MS but I thought I'd try this team one more time. Thanks, Jimmy
