RE: [ActiveDir] Remote site slowdown weirdness

[Robert N. Leali]

I think I’m having the same problem at my site and haven’t been able to isolate or resolve.  Basically, the mapped shares time out with a red X.   I saw on a Microsoft article than you can increase the time out period on a W2K or W2K3 server share, but not sure if this is the solution as not all of the sites have the problem.  My sites connections are a combination of ATM/T1.  Could the time out disconnect be coming from the router/switch configuration?   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 10:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Remote site slowdown weirdness   This is a complete guess, but when you click My Computer it is doublechecking all of the drives so it is reaching out to all of the file shares. When it does that it is probably locking certain things up in the network stack or workstation service that can only be done serially.   I would recommend a network trace of a machine while doing that to see what calls are going out and taking so long to be responded to.     joe   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rimmerman, Russ Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 2:19 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [ActiveDir] Remote site slowdown weirdness We have a remote site connected to us with a 768k link.  Intermittently, when the users at the remote site double-click "My Computer", it takes 15-20 seconds or more for the drives to appear.  When it's happening, it takes them a long time to access drive letters back at our headquarters over the WAN.  We have tons of other sites connected this way, and have no issues.  The WAN link utilization is generally below 50% when this is occurring.    If they disconnect all their network mapped drives, the problem magically goes away.    Is there some settings in WinXP and 2K that may cause the OS to do all kinds of checking and searching whenever My Computer is launched that might slow them down?  We've been troubleshooting this site problem for over 2 years now.  We also tried giving them their own local WINS server, and they have their own local DNS server running on their local domain controller.  There is about 50 users at the site.   Any ideas? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions and may be confidential or privileged. This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~