Re: [WinMac] Slow NT server copying - SOLVED
Tony Green(tonygreen[at]mindspring.com)
Got no responses to this post, so I kept banging... I was installing SP5 on the server after work one night when everyone had left for the day, and I noticed that the activity light on the hub was still blinking rapidly. To make a long story short, one of the network cards in a PC was generating lots of traffic, presumably overloading the system. For example, I could slow a copy in progress to a crawl just by plugging in the PC at the patch panel. I swapped the card and all's well.
The reason it was intermittent is that the owner of the PC travels quite a bit, so when he was in and his machine was on, the network was slow, but he wasn't in that much. I never noticed the correlation.
Tony Green
My original post:
>Does anybody know what would cause slow copying from a Macintosh volume on an NT server to a beige desktop Mac G3 running Mac OS 8.1? Copying performance varies widely for no reason I can think of for as long as we've had this server and we've tried to find the culprit, but no luck so far. Today it's running about 2 meg/minute, so I thought I'd ask again. I've tried most of the tips at the Macwindows site, but the problem is very inconsistent. Most of the time, it's fine, but when it's not... we don't know "what's different."
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