Slow wireless file sharing 1

[Clarry]

I have a Belkin wireless router with 2 desktop wired in and 1 laptop connected with a Belkin 802.11g wireless network card. All the computers can see each other and all can access the net with good speed. When on the desktop, I can access the files from the laptop easily, but when on the laptop it takes about 10 minutes to open the main decktop C drive. By main I mean the one I use most and has the printer attached. Once open it runs fine but the wait is unbearable. Same thing if I send something from the laptop to the printer attached to the desktop, a good 10 min wait before printing.
As I said, it's only a 1 way thing from the laptop to the desktop. The other way is fast and good. Has anyone experienced this or know what's going wrong.
I should mention the laptop use to run 98SE and all was working fine then but now it's got XPhome, same as desktops.
It's a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300.
Thanks.

 

[bcastner]

Welcome to Tek-Tips clarry.

I have some suggestions, and some detective work you will need to do:

1. Make this registry entry on all machines:

Open the registry editor.

Go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RemoteComputer\NameSpace

Export this key (in order to back it up, just in case) and then delete the key called

{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} (Task Scheduler).

Close the registry.

2. Make the entries suggested in this MS KB Article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;8141126sp&NoWebContent=1

3. You do not specify the printer interface or brand, but be aware of USB printer issues. See the discussion and particularly the linked articles: thread779-647815

 

[Clarry]

Hi bcastner,
Thanks for the welcome and the advise.
I did as you suggested and deleted the key called
{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF} (Task Scheduler) on all my networked computers but unfortunately the problem persists. The MS KB article link you supplied(

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;8141126sp&NoWebContent=1

)is dead so I couldn't make any of the entries suffested there.
Thanks anyway.

 

[bcastner]

Lets try that link again:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814112

See also the SMB signing and opportunistic locking workarounds discussed here: thread779-748409

 

[Clarry]

Thanks again bcastner,
I have found if I map network drives before trying to access the desktop, it works fine. Only thing is I have to do it every time I switch on, but that's ok, it's better than before.
Thanks for all your help.