'My Computer' loads super-slow

[shinyhappygav]

I'm trying to reinstall windows xp, and everything is run sweetly.

I log into our domain, and it's all working fine (although a bit slow at logging in).

After I've installed a few things, all of a sudden, the 'My Computer' shortcut fails to work properly.

It takes about 5 minutes for the drive icons to pop up, and when they do, my network shares don't work.

This is connecting to a Windows 2000 server, and as I said, it was all working fine...

...even System Restore didn't fix the problem...

PLEASE HELP... THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS

 

[bcastner]

You have the classic symptoms of not having your DNS entries correctly entered into your TCP/IP properties, and/or a network autonegotiation failure:

thread779-540080

 

[shinyhappygav]

Thanks mate, but I tried everything mentioned in that thread that seemed likely... It sounded like a DNS error, but things still don't work, even after comparing values with the server and double checking.

I can live with the long log-in time, but My Computer is rather critical (obviously Windows Explorer does the same).

I appears to be network related, as when I remove the N/W cable My Computer immediately works again.

It worked initially when I installed the network drivers, and configured the domain, but since then this problem has occured.

Win98SE clients all work fine.

 

[shinyhappygav]

Now when I try to log on as someone else, it says that the domain cannot be found...??

 

[bcastner]

Even more evidence of a DNS failure.

Browse this site under the Domain subhead:

http://www25.brinkster.com/ChicagoTech/

 

[bcastner]

One possible "fix" is that in the re-installation your Winsock service entries in the registry were corrupted. It would be worth your while to download and apply this Winsock Service repair tool:

http://members.shaw.ca/techcd/VB_Projects/WinsockFix