Harry
Tue Jul 22 05:43:39 CDT 2003
Alan
I would just give up. I have been plagued by a very
similar sounding problem for months on Win9x clients.
Though it does sound like a Wins/Netbios problem, or
perhaps even DNS; the most likely answer I cam up with
was an autosensing issue on the switch, the older Win9x
machines failing to atuosense and defaulting to half
duplex (ieee standard apparently.) This may be entirely
wrong. What I do know is that W2K or XP never have any
problems like that at all. Looking around the threads
most people seem to try and move to W2K or XP and the
problem dissapears. If you do make headway please let me
know
(Hair all pulled off head)
Harry
>-----Original Message-----
>For starters, upgrade that XP Home to Pro.
>Have you installed WINS on the server? W9x and ME need
it.
>Join all machines to the domain, with or without the
magic disc (it will
>work on the W9x and ME, but it's not that hard to do it
yourself).
>How many nics in the server and have you checked
www.smallbizserver.net for
>your network setup? Check your bindingorder.
>On the workstations, make sure they get the IP from the
DHCP-server and
>obtain DNS from the server, which will also push the
WINS and DNS.
>
>Marina
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>"AlanS" <alans_solutions@msn.com> schreef in bericht
>news:03ee01c34d65$d934fcf0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> This week, I moved a client with 18 desktop machines
from
>> a Linux Server to SBS. Users have been set up thru the
>> wizard but have not yet added computers to AD nor have
I
>> run the magic disk. All clients are connecting to the
>> network in a WORKGROUP mode.
>>
>> Desktop OS as follows:
>> 1 @ XP Pro
>> 1 @ XP Home
>> 3 @ Win98 SE
>> 13 @ WinMe
>>
>> PROBLEM: Since the change to SBS, client machines
running
>> W98 & Me frequently either lose their connection to
their
>> mapped drives or even disconnect from the mapped drive
and
>> need to be remapped. Occasional their machine even
crash.
>> They are also reporting that their applications are
>> running alot slower than when running against the Linux
>> box.
>>
>> Any ideas out on what might be needed to resolve these
>> issues or what steps might be taken to diagnose this
one?
>>
>> Thanks all, AlanS
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