Hi Simon We a web design company, hence most of the servers are web servers. We are a fairly small company in terms of our number of employees, however yes I suppose we are not a small enterprise. Thanks for your comments although I had considered most of these. We do allow our users unrestricted internet access. I will investigate this. >-- Original Message -- >Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Netware 5.0 with W2k?[Scanned] >Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:41:19 -0000 >From: "Simon Bound" <simon.bound@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >http://www.MSExchange.org/ ......an equal number of desktops ? You have 30 servers and 30 desktops ? Not a specific Exchange question but.... Are you running NetWare in IP mode only ? The will be overheads in IPX and SAP broadcasts if not. Are y >u running NETBeui as well on the w/s. Is everything (everything) fully patched up ? Which servers supply DHCP info. Is DNS correctly configured and do the w/s resolve consistently ? Is you virus scanning up to date, have your users got full internet >access to download cr*p like adware etc etc ? have you got a sniffer program that would tell you about your LAN traffic utilisation....could be a duff NIC causing your problem. These are all fairly obvious pointers. I successfully managed Netware an > Windows 2000 together (and at the time preferred Novell due to its inherent stability. However there is probably a good reason for you to convert purely from a "standards" viewpoint. Since using W2K I have concluded that Netware is excellent for a lar >e company where NDS can be fully utilised - 30 servers however is not a small enterprise is it !!! Simon Bound -----Original Message----- From: gster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 10:18 AM To: [Exc >angeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Netware 5.0 with W2k?[Scanned] http://www.MSExchange.org/ Good morning to all I have just started working in a small company with about 30 servers and an equal number of desktop machines (all running w2k p >o). Currently we have NDS on a Netware server and also active directory on Windows 2000 Server. I suspect that this could be responsable for both a slow response time on in accessing files and folders on the network shares and also for other strang > occurences such as some machines not being viewable from some machines and not from others. I am considering converting the Netware Server to a w2k server and possibly then switching to Native mode. Has anyone else been in a similar position to >his? Is this likely to solve the problems and slow response time on the network? Anything to be aware of? Any advise most appreciated. Graeme Robertson ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://w >w.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other In >ernet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Network Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://w >w.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solutions: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchange >ist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp Exchange FAQ: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/larticle.asp?type=FAQ ------------------------------------------------------ Other Internet Software Marketing Sites: Leading Ne >work Software Directory: http://www.serverfiles.com No.1 ISA Server Resource Site: http://www.isaserver.org Windows Security Resource Site: http://www.windowsecurity.com/ Network Security Library: http://www.secinf.net/ Windows 2000/NT Fax Solution >: http://www.ntfaxfaq.com ------------------------------------------------------