very slow network nighborhood response

[frissack]

the network neighborhood function is very slow
(about 20 or 30 seconds)
in my local network between a PC with WIN2K PRO
and another PC with WIN XP PRO

can anyone help ?

thanks

 

[salserocito]

Sure, what Protocols are you running? Are they connected via a Switch, Hub or Router? 10Mb, 100Mb or 1gb?

Please advise.

 

[frissack]

i have one ethernet card 100mb on each PC without any hub or router.

i just have a crossed RJ45 cable between the
two PC.

the protocols (which i remember) are :

file and printer sharing
tcp/ip

 

[salserocito]

Is TCPIP the only protocol running, or is NetBios or NetBEUI also involved?

 

[peterve]

is something shared on both machines ?
(sharing a directory or printer might speed up)
you may want to create a LMHOSTS file to speed up browsing...

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[paulba]

I had a similar problem between XP and 2000, although via a hub. I found out in the end that although both PC's had 100MB network cards, one was set to 10M half duplex while the other was set to 100M full duplex. Changing them both to the same resolved the issue.

May or may not be your issue - but hope it helps

 

[CHM1]

The best thing after verifying the settings of the Lan Cards (100 Mbps Full or Auto in the properties of the Lan Card) is to capture packets on the lan with a sniffer (or Win 2K Network Monitor ?) and see if there's no retries or what are the retries for the discovery (perhaps you are asking a DNS about machine names, or having many Netbios requests).

 

[kcbell]

The LAN card setting is important. However, if you are only connecting two computers together for files sharing and transfer and may be printer sharing, why not use NETBEUI. It is designed to be used for small network. There is too much technical issue to deal with on TCP/IP.

 

[GiaBetiu]

When you click the Network Neighborhood, the system will try to contact a browser server. As Microsoft rules say, if you don't have a domain controller, then the master browser will be the computer with the newest Windows OS (or voting if they have the same OS). In your case Win XP. Try to disable "computer browser" service on XP machine. Then Win2000 will be the master browser. Maybe it wil work better.
Gia Betiu
m.betiu@chello.nl
Computer Eng. CNE 4, CNE 5

 

[GlenJohnson]

Definitely lmhosts. Glen A. Johnson
Microsoft Certified Professional

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