There is no "fix" for the issue, because you haven't worked out what the issue is yet.
I don't know why you think a "network trace" is useless. It will show the actual SMB traffic (including errors, resets and so forth). It has nothing to do with tracert or ping (don't know why you threw that in). www.wireshark.org <- get this and get a packet capture from one of your affected clients. Cheers Ken ________________________________________ From: Steph Balog [validemai...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 12:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Slow DFS connections for windows xp users (and windows 2003) (quoted below Ken) That is just it, there is nothing showing in the event logs indicating any errors. And the network traces are pointless. Pinging and Traceroutes onl send icmp requests to endpoints (ping) or the hops along the route (tracert). We are talking smb and rpc. Running dfsdiags shows no issues, AGAIN, there are no issues with vista, 2008 or windows 7 clients. It is ONLY locking up and being slow with xp clients and windows 2003 clients. So please, if anyone has seen this issue, it would be very very greatly appreciated to share what you have seen and/or ddi to fix the issue. Hi, Can you please include the posts that you are replying to, so that we can follow the conversation? >From what I can see below what you have done below is change settings, which >may or may not be, related to your problem. The question I asked was what have you done to determine the underlying problem/root cause? (what logs have you captured? network traces? etc) Cheers Ken ________________________________________ From: Steph Balog [validemai...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 12:06 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Slow DFS connections for windows xp users (and windows 2003) I have applied hotfixes related to the problem, tried connecting via ip and fqdn rather than through the dfs namespace, rebooted the server, turned of smb2, turned down security features in the local security policy. And nothing. Again, the key here is the vista boxes, windows 2008 clients, windows 7 client all have 0 problems. It is just the xp and 2003 (older) clients. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
