Finder - establishing connection to server takes forever

Hello,
I already found an archived discussion (https://discussions.apple.com/message/10356039#10356039) which explains my server issue.
Anyway I will write some further thoughts down here and I don't use VPN.
Our company with about 40 (Lions, Mountain Lions and Snow Leopards) employees runs a Xserve with Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 Snow Leopard.
The problem I have consists of the File Sharing Service over AFP and/or SMB (I tried them both).
Most of our clients have no issues connecting with Finder to the file server and mount shares.
But a few of them have issues regarding the connecting time (~1–2 min.) until a share is mounted successfully.
After the connection is established there are no further performance issues.
Anyway this waiting time is annoying.
I don't really know whether this is a server or a client issue.
The issued clients are OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion respectively.
What I already tried was creating a new user on one issued machine, but didn't help.
I'm looking forward to get some support with this.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Delivery Boy

1. Make sure SQL Server Service is running
2. If a named instance, make sure SQL Server browser service is running
3. Make sure SQL Server is configured to allow remote connections
4. Examine the SQL Server error log for messages confirming that SQL is listening on the expected network interfaces and ports
5. Test server connectivity with PING from the client machine
6. Test port connectivity using TELNET or PowerShell to the server and port (from step 4) from the client machine. For example
a. TELNET <server-name> 1433
b. PowerShell: 1433 | % { echo ((new-object Net.Sockets.TcpClient).Connect("YourServerName",$_)) "server listening on TCP port $_" }
7. Check firewall settings if step 5 or 6 connectivity test fails
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