I recently installed a new Dell server for a client. There are about 6 workstations attached to the network. 2 of the workstations that do the bulk of the work becoming slow to open and print documents that are stored on the server. If you reboot the workstation it seems fine for about 2-3 hours and then it becomes slow again. The server is running Server 2003 and setup as a domain controller. The workstations are running XP with 512mg and do show up in Active Directory as objects. The slow to respond problem on occurs when the workstations tries to open document on the network not the local machine. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

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Not sure what the problem could be... But, I guess, the first thing I would check 
is to see if there was any network activity during this wait period?  Maybe there 
is a delay due to some network service failure, and in that case you will probably 
see a lack of network activity while you are waiting for the document to load, signaling 
that the workstation is waiting for something in order to find the resource, etc..

If there is constant network activity during the loading period, then I would see 
if the slow loading is correlated with larger files versus smaller files, or if there 
may be some network connectivity issues.

Just thoughts.

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