[Samba] XP Pro is fast and XP Home is slow

[Andrew Gaffney]

I run a small network with 3 computers: 2 XP Home, 1 XP Pro. All 3 run a program 
called PCLaw that access a bunch of different databases on a Slackware server 
running Samba. I was running Samba 2.2.4 earlier I just upgraded to 3.0.4. Even 
with the upgrade, the XP Pro machine is nice and fast when accessing and 
manipulating the databases. Both of the XP Home machines are very, very slow. 
They are all on a 100base-T network hooked to the same router. They are all 
running the same version of the PCLaw application. Can anyone think of any ideas 
why the Pro box would be speedy and the Home boxes not? One of the XP Home boxes 
has a 2.4GHz P4 processor, so that is not the problem.

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Andrew Gaffney
Network Administrator
Skyline Aeronautics, LLC.
636-357-1548