Hi, a) I don't work for a university. Who I work for is publicly available: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Ken is one such place you can find this information out yourself.
b) Whilst your capture might not show any errors, it also shows time elapsed and the types of queries being made. Maybe it would be helpful for us (or yourself) to look at *which* parts of the trace are consuming the most amount of time c) It's not semantics - you've identified some symptoms, but we don't know the root cause d) Lastly, this is a free support list. Whilst generally there are people who provide good answers to questions here in a cheerful manner, you're not entitled by right to that. If you want friendly, attentive technical support please open a PSS call with Microsoft. If you don't like the attitude here, please feel free to apply for a full refund :-) Cheers Ken ________________________________________ From: Steph Balog [validemai...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 10 July 2009 1:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Slow DFS connections for windows xp users (and windows 2003) (quoting Ken below) Ken (you dont happen to work at a university do you?) I did use wireshark, I was using wireshark when it was ethereal, and probably using it long before most on this list have been working. I HAVE stated the issue. Windows XP and 2003 clients are experiencing slow connectivity to shares on a windows 2008 server. Regardless of whether it is through dfs or not. Windows vista client and windows 7 clients do not. The issue looks to be a a client one. Perhaps something to do with how the OLDER client handle talking smb to the NEWER server. That is the ISSUE KEN. My question was if ANYONE has seen such an issue. There is an ISSUE KEN. And fyi, wireshark did not show me anything but smb traffic being initiated the server responding, and then nothing. It didnt show errors, it didnt show drops. It is not a network issue, it is not a traffic issue. So again KEN, unless you can add something useful to this conversation, please refrain from your semantics. And hopefully someone else may have experienced this and can offer me some isight. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
