On 2006-03-15 10:20:39 -0500, chris@groupinfo.com said:

> Hello:
>
> We have in ongoing problem and I have not been able to find a direct
> solution to it yet, and was wondering if anybody could provide some
> insight.
>
> The problem is users that are saving files to a network drive from
> Excel 2003 SP2 on Windows XP SP2, to a Windows 2003 SP1 server
> (Appliance Edition), takes a very long time. I watched the bytes
> written in task manager... basically Excel.exe writes the total size of
> the file to the destination quickly at first (creating the temp file I
> believe), then the speed slows down to around 100 bytes / second as it
> continues to save the file. I am testing Excel files around 200-300KB
> in size, but the problem is there for all Excel files. Copying files
> normally in Explorer works fine, and seems to also be fine saving from
> other apps like Word, etc.
>
> The client machine is connecting on a VPN, but this problem seems to be
> specific to this Windows 2003 SP1 server. When saving the exact same
> files to a Windows XP workstation to the same network as the server,
> the saves go very quick as expected. So to me it seems like a Windows
> 2003 server issue.
>
> Has anybody else seen this problem or know of a possible solution?
> Thank you in advance for any & all feedback!

Try disabling SMB signing on the clients and the server (use the Local
Security Policy console). I have seen instances where this will affect
network performance.

HTH.

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Regards,
Scott Lowe
ePlus Technology, Inc.