re: NETBEUI in Windows XP
Monday, October 8, 2001 at 8:40 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by John
(1 messages posted)
have either of you tried to enable netbios over IPX/SPX? I have cured a multitude
of lan issues, even across differring os versions, by this simple change.
I dislike resorting to netbui as a 'fix' due to security exploits it opens up.
On Saturday, October 6, 2001 at 7:30 am, Nords wrote:
>I have a problem networking XP to a 98SE machine. I previously had two 98SE machines
>networking with no problems at all, using Netbeui, as you described in your post.
> Speed was good, good response time, no problems, and safe. I have recently upgraded
>the main 98SE machine to WinXP. I've setup ICS, which works, but what's strange
>is that the 98SE client machine gets better bandwidth than the host WinXP machine.
> I've done broadband tweaks on both, but XP nearly cuts in half my downstream bandwidth.
> Anyway, the main point, is that the WinXP host machine is terribly slow at accessing
>the shared folders on the client 98SE machine. I thought installing Netbeui would
>solve it, but apparently it refuses to use Netbeui alone(which I could do with two
>98SE machines). Am I doing something wrong? Could you detail, as much as you like,
>how you have your WinXP network setup? I can access the other machine, but it seems
>only with TCP/IP, and it's really slow in response... it generally takes about 10
>seconds or more for the folder list to come up, and I have a 100mbps switch with
>100mbps full duplex NIC's. As I said, this wasn't a problem with 2 98SE machines
>with Netbeui, fast... but WinXP is having speed problems and I've tried just about
>all the setting options I can imagine. Thanks for any insight.
>
>So in summary I would like advice on two things:
>
>* Improving/Understanding the slower downstream performance of the Winxp host machine
>in comparison to the 'faster' client Win98SE(that goes through the WinXP machine!)
>
>* Improving/Understanding the slow response time and performance of my WinXP host
>to Win98SE client in accessing shared files. It takes 10 seconds or more to access
>anything, and I can't seem to copy anything
>either. Also, exclusively using Netbeui as the file sharing protocol instead of
>TCP or IPX.
>
>I appreciate your time and knowledge.
>
>If anyone else has any ideas, please post, thanks.
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