Comments on: Network neigbhorhood

By: paul144hart

paul144hart — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:07:04 +0000

I would look for network places that aren’t reachable as well. In relation to DNS, are there names in the host file? Sounds like there are multiple unreachable network services.

By: elpueblo

elpueblo — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:09:48 +0000

I had a problem similar to this. It may be a DNS issue. If your DNS server is not on-site (i.e you’re using an Internet DNS # instead of an intranet one) the Computer is checking the Internet for the local network Names. Add DNS to your DC or any server and have that server looking at the Internet DNS while all other computers take the DNS from the server.

By: elpueblo

elpueblo — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 14:08:27 +0000

I had a problem simular to this. It may be a DNS issue. If your DNS server is not onsite (i.e you’re using an internet DNS # instead of an intranet one) the Computer is checking the internet for the local network Names. Add DNS to your DC or any server and have that server looking at the Internet DNS while all other computers take the DNS from the server.

By: stevesz

stevesz — Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:12:33 +0000

I also feel taht you have a memory leak in one of your processes taht is running, however, it could also be a program or service hogging your CPU cycles. When you bring up task manager, go to the processes tab and then sort by the CPU column to see what may be using what percentage of CPU cycles.If you see one eatin gall or most of your cycles, you have probably found the culprit and can then determine why it is using al those cycles. If you do not see enough cycles being used to add up to 100, or very close, then you have a hidden process dong it, and you should start scnning your machine for virus, worm, trojan, spyware, etc. A server should not have any spyware on it since you only need to use th ebrowser for patching or KB lookups.

Another place to look are your event logs. Sny errors or warnings there can give you a clue as to what may be happening.

Steve//

By: snurd342

snurd342 — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:02:45 +0000

You might take a look in task manager to see what processes are running and if anything is eating up a lot of memory. Trying to connect to a dead resource can cause Network Places to be slow, but probably not control panel. My guess would be something hogging the memory.

By: bmccracken

bmccracken — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:00:25 +0000

I known this is a hard one to trouble shoot, but I would check the DNS to see that it is correctly setup and working, after that see if there is a master browser causing a problem…..

By: sonyfreek

sonyfreek — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:45:08 +0000

Are your “Computer Browser”, “Server”, “Workstation”, and “Network Connections” running? I’ve noticed that they not running them when you are attempting to open the network neighborhood can slow things down to a crawl. Still, it’s never taken an hour to do it, but I’d go so far as saying at least 10 minutes.

HTH,
SF

By: johare22

johare22 — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:33:20 +0000

I know the information you provided is somewhat limited but I suggest looking at mynetwork places are the links and file shares current or do you have a lot of old junk that is no longer valid. If you have old nonexistant file shares or other links the system will wear itself out trying to open each and everyone until it gives up and moves on. Depending on how out of date the system is it could take some significant time to resolve.

By: hatcherbob

hatcherbob — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:37:49 +0000

Need more info to really help narrow it down… What applications are you running on the server? How much memory? Does it have more than one CPU? Have you scanned for spyware? Have you installed any additional (third party) hardware? When did the problem start? Was it always like that or did you just come in one morning and find everything runniing slow?

By: hatcherbob

hatcherbob — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:37:27 +0000

Need more info to really help narrow it down… What applications are you running on the server? How much memory? Does it have more than one CPU? Have you scanned for spyware? Have you installed any additional (third party) hardware? When did the problem start. Was it always like that or did you just come in one morning and find everything runniing slow?