This is the first explanation of the problem that makes any sense... Thanks!
I don't have any NT/2K/XP in the equation, but I guess the broadcast stuff doesn't like the VPN. Transfers can be as slow as 100kbits/second unmapped, and closer to 500 mapped (the limit of the upstream side of the connection). Huge speed differences that I only stumbled upon by accident. I was blaming the ISP for the problem! Brock > Message: 2 > From: guitarlynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] DCD, ipsec & windows networking ??? > Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:19:01 -0600 > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
