If you have the novell client installed on your workstations, you should be able to make the change I mentioned in my previous post to both Win2k and Winxp boxes, without breaking your connections to your netware servers. HTH J ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Etts, Russell Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:30 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Windows 2003 F&P server Hi Jim Thank you for the quick response! Here is what I should have said... From the client workstation, documents that reside on the Windows share are slower to open (generally 5 to 10 seconds) than the same documents on the Novell server. This is happening on both a W2K professional workstation and an XP workstation. Any suggestions for W2K machines?? Thank you again Russell ________________________________ From: Jim Hathaway [mailto:JimH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 11:23 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Re: Windows 2003 F&P server "The Windows server seems to be a bit slower in opening documents that are on the network shares." Could you refine this statement a bit more? Do you mean that from the console of your new windows 2003 server accessing and opening documents on remote shares is slow . . or that from client machines accessing documents on the network shares hosted on your Windows 2003 server that access is slow? Off the cuff, if you're replacing a netware environment, that most likely means you have the Novell client installed on your client workstations. By default the Nov client sets itself as the highest priority network provider, over MS, and can make access to MS shares slower. To fix this do the following from a client workstation w/ the novell client installed (I'm assuming win XP clients here): - right click network neighborhood, go to properites - Select "advanced" and then "advanced settings" - Select the "provider order" tab - make sure that Microsoft Windows Network is highest in the provider order. HTH J ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Etts, Russell Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 7:55 AM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Windows 2003 F&P server Hi all Sorry for the cross post - there is more traffic here than on the W2K3 list. We are in the process of replacing our old Novell F&P server with a Windows 2003 F&P server. The Windows server seems to be a bit slower in opening documents that are on the network shares. DNS looks to be working fine (the ping response times are perfect). There is nothing unusual in the event logs. Is there anything else that I should be looking at?? Help?? Thank you in advance for all your assistance Russell