It might help the server types if you can say how you're accessing it. Are you using UNC pathnames? Drive mappings? Are there any UNC pathnames or drive mappings that have recently been eliminated? This can result in long delays, while Windows decides whether the dead links are still valid. If you have the "Web Client" service enabled on the XP box (it is by default), then XP will look for web content on any folder that it tries to open. This also slows things down. Then there's the way that Windows looks for Scheduled tasks on every remote folder. I don't have the registry hack handy, but it's one entry that needs to be changed, in order to disable this.
*EDIT* I did a quick search and found that system time settings can also cause issues with remote access speed. Have you matched the time zone on the 2003 server to your location and are both systems time synchronized (or at least close)?
Last edited by Papa_Complex; 12-05-2008 at 07:34 AM..
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