CS3 slow over local network

I'm on a MacBook Pro 2.33GHZ Core 2 Duo w/2GB RAM.
Websites are shared from a Windows XP machine using normal
built in file sharing.
In Dreamweaver CS3, opening a document takes a while. And
once it's open and everything looks good, I can click on an image
and count out 2 seconds before the image actually highlights. Click
on another image or in a table cell to type text, and it's another
two seconds.
This site website, copied to my own hard drive, responds as
fast as it should - near instant.
The website and images aren't large by any means, 43k with
HTML, images, and css. It seems weird that it'd be slower over the
network than locally. Once Dreamweaver has the document open and
everything loaded, just selecting different elements shouldn't take
a performance hit.
I didn't have this problem with Dreamweaver 8.
Anyone else having this issue? Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Ryan

Hi theand
Thanks for going through the Mac troubleshooting TechNote.
Sorry it didn't
help.
1. Can you please send us a bug report so we can get your
contact info?
Please let us know that you are "theand":
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish
2. Can you reproduce this problem on another Mac connecting
to your same
server?
3. On your Mac, in the Site Definition, how do you have the
Local Info and
Remote Info sections filled out?
4. Do you have any sites that use an FTP server? Do those
sites have the
same problem?
5. What kind of server are you connecting to in your local
network?
Thanks,
David Alcala
Adobe Product Support
"theand" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
news:f0db3f$rgk$[email protected]..
> I've followed every suggestion on the general Mac OSX
troubleshooting tech
> note
> and none of them helped.
>
>
2. Can you reproduce the problem in a new site definition using
a new
> local
> root folder that only contains one file? Setup this site
so it has no
> remote access (i.e. no FTP, Local Network, etc.)
>
> I have an existing site which is on my hard drive and
does not produce the
> problem. If I then go back to a site served across our
local network the
> beachball appears as soon as I open a file, not before.
After about 30
> secs to
> a minute it will free up then if i click anywhere or
scroll it will beach
> ball
> again and so on.
>
>
3. Does your site have a lot of files and subfolders?
>
> The sites on the network have a lot of files and
subfolders. DW8 worked
> with
> them fine however.
>
>
4. Does the problem only happen if you have DW open for a long
time or
> can
> you reproduce it right after opening DW?
>
> It happens as soon as I open a file immediately after
launch.
>

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    Tries on the other iMac (also running 10.8.2) and things are exactly the same: Image creation takes almost half an hour, and copying crawls at under 1MB/min. While time machine image is mounted and Time Machine is "backing up", accessing ANY disk on the host Mac is VERY slow. Seems like something hogs up appleshare when Time Machine is in use. Mind you, there is insignificant network traffic as seen by Activity Monitor, as well as insignificant CPU usage while backing up.
    Stopping backup and using tmutil to set the Time Machine destination to the mounted image as mounted by Finder, solves the issue again, revving up Time Machine throughput to over 20MB/sec! There is also no issues acessing the other Mac as well, under this scenario.
    Up to this point, the only way I have managed to use Time Machine over a networked external HD is through the NAS server. Both configurations where I am using a Mac running 10.8.2 as a server of the external disk have failed with very low throughput while backing up. Something must be wrong in 10.8.2's afp when Time Machine is mounting the image by itself.
    I may need to remind you that I have been successfully backing up to the external HD for 4 years now; something broke a few months after the client iMac was upgraded to Lion and at the time when the host iMac was upgraded to Mountain Lion. Will try to locate a Mac running some later OS X version to do some more testing.
    Also reminding that I have used two distinctive iMacs and two external HD drives for my tests so far. The client iMac has remained the same, however 10.8.2 has been reinstalled on it a couple of times. Have also used an afp-enabled NAS server which worked fine with Time Machine.

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