Slow (very) Win Me client

Vincent GRENET vincent.grenet at evistel.com
Mon Jan 28 01:51:38 GMT 2002


Yes.

What makes Win Me slow is when it displays folders like web pages. In the
Win Explorer, go to Tools/Options (I guessed the names, because Me speaks
French on my desktop...), check not to use web mode.

Hope this helps.

Vincent
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Balkwill" <jkbalkwill at sympatico.ca>
To: <vincent.grenet at evistel.com>
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: Slow (very) Win Me client


> I am experiencing the same thing (very similar tcpdump) as you described
> in your post to comp.protocols.smb 2001-12-03 and I was wondering if you
> had learned anything further. The newsgroup replies weren't very much
> help :-(
>
> In my case Win ME clients (both of them, different NICs) have problems
> accessing either my FreeBSD Samba server or a Win NT 4 workstation. I
> can access these machines fine from either NT or 98. So I strongly
> suspect that Win ME is the culprit.
>
> I've trolled through the MS websites looking for registry settings that
> might change the behavior of the ME network client but didn't find
> anything useful.
>
> Thanks.
> Jim.
>
>





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