Slow listing of network shares

Hi all,
after clicking on a computer on a computer (mac or windows), the list with shares takes about 8 seconds to appear. on another macbook the shares are shown directly after the click. any solutions?
greetings
soCram

Hi, I am from Germany too. Experienced same problem as you did. Don't know if the thing I did fixed the problem but it seems that this is the case.
Do following:
Open your network preferences, push the button with says "more options" ("weitere optionen"). Select "Ethernet" in the Options (the last option category) and change MTU Size to manual and to the value of 1492. Im my case the speed was as with mac os x 10.4.x after this modification.
Hope this helps
Regards from Hamburg

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# 1 #
Log Name: Application
Source: Application Error
Date: ...
Event ID: 1005
Task Category: (100)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: vmDEV
Description:
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because of this error.
Program: XYZ
File:
The error value is listed in the Additional Data section.
User Action
1. Open the file again. This situation might be a temporary problem that corrects itself when the program runs again.
2. If the file still cannot be accessed and
- It is on the network, your network administrator should verify that there is not a problem with the network and that the server can be contacted.
- It is on a removable disk, for example, a floppy disk or CD-ROM, verify that the disk is fully inserted into the computer.
3. Check and repair the file system by running CHKDSK. To run CHKDSK, click Start, click Run, type CMD, and then click OK. At the command prompt, type CHKDSK /F, and then press ENTER.
4. If the problem persists, restore the file from a backup copy.
5. Determine whether other files on the same disk can be opened. If not, the disk might be damaged. If it is a hard disk, contact your administrator or computer hardware vendor for further assistance.
Additional data
Error value: C000020C [ also seen with code C00000C4]
#2 (German error Messages from now on, we only use German OSes, the above english one is translated based on similar error Messages I found on the web) #
Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: XYZ.exe, Version: 2015.0.496.5054, Zeitstempel: 0x54ea67c3
Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: clr.dll, Version: 4.0.30319.34014, Zeitstempel: 0x52e0b784
Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000006
Fehleroffset: 0x00026549
ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x13ac
Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01d055a854d36445
Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: \\share\application.exe
Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\clr.dll
Berichtskennung: 949ea933-c19b-11e4-bf04-78542e186754
Vollständiger Name des fehlerhaften Pakets:
Anwendungs-ID, die relativ zum fehlerhaften Paket ist:
Anwendung: XYZ.exe
Frameworkversion: v4.0.30319
Beschreibung: Der Prozess wurde aufgrund einer unbehandelten Ausnahme beendet.
Ausnahmeinformationen: Ausnahmecode c0000006, Ausnahmeadresse 720B6549
Stapel:
# 3 #
Anwendung: WpfApp.exe
Frameworkversion: v4.0.30319
Beschreibung: Der Prozess wurde aufgrund einer unbehandelten Ausnahme beendet.
Ausnahmeinformationen: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException
Stapel:
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# 4 #
Anwendung: WpfApp.exe
Frameworkversion: v4.0.30319
Beschreibung: Der Prozess wurde aufgrund einer unbehandelten Ausnahme beendet.
Ausnahmeinformationen: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException
Stapel:
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   bei System.Resources.RuntimeResourceSet.GetObject(System.String, Boolean, Boolean)
   bei System.Resources.RuntimeResourceSet.GetObject(System.String, Boolean)
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# 5 #
Anwendung: WpfApp.exe
Frameworkversion: v4.0.30319
Beschreibung: Der Prozess wurde aufgrund einer unbehandelten Ausnahme beendet.
Ausnahmeinformationen: System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException
Stapel:
   bei System.Reflection.RuntimeParameterInfo.get_Name()
   bei System.Diagnostics.StackTrace.ToString(TraceFormat)
   bei System.Environment.GetStackTrace(System.Exception, Boolean)
   bei System.Exception.GetStackTrace(Boolean)
   bei System.Exception.ToString(Boolean, Boolean)
   bei System.Exception.ToString(Boolean, Boolean)
   bei System.Exception.ToString(Boolean, Boolean)
   bei System.Exception.ToString()
# 6 #
Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: XYZ.exe, Version: 2015.0.496.5054, Zeitstempel: 0x54ea834f
Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: KERNELBASE.dll, Version: 6.3.9600.17278, Zeitstempel: 0x53eeb460
Ausnahmecode: 0xe0434352
Fehleroffset: 0x00012f71
ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0xa68
Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01d0559cb7ec4ed6
Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: \\share\XYZ.exe
Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\KERNELBASE.dll
Berichtskennung: 010514d0-c190-11e4-bf04-78542e186754
Vollständiger Name des fehlerhaften Pakets:
Anwendungs-ID, die relativ zum fehlerhaften Paket ist:
# 7 #
Name der fehlerhaften Anwendung: XYZ.exe, Version: 2015.0.496.5054, Zeitstempel: 0x54ea7a6e
Name des fehlerhaften Moduls: ntdll.dll, Version: 6.3.9600.17630, Zeitstempel: 0x54b0d74f
Ausnahmecode: 0xc0000006
Fehleroffset: 0x0006db27
ID des fehlerhaften Prozesses: 0x18dc
Startzeit der fehlerhaften Anwendung: 0x01d0559cb08529c3
Pfad der fehlerhaften Anwendung: \\share\xyz.exe
Pfad des fehlerhaften Moduls: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Berichtskennung: ef389186-c18f-11e4-bf04-78542e186754
Vollständiger Name des fehlerhaften Pakets:
Anwendungs-ID, die relativ zum fehlerhaften Paket ist:

Hi,
>>The applications run fine when launching from a FQDN share
It sounds like a DNS suffix issue. When this issue occurs, please try to ping share on the client, then check if the corresponding IP address is correct. If the IP address is wrong, please adjust your settings of DNS to make sure that the client can resolve
the share correctly.
If it's very hard to change the settings of the DNS for some reason, as a work around, we can add the entry into the clients' hosts file.
Best Regards.
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Hi MeipoXu,
Sorry, it has taken me so long to reply. I thought I had subscribed to receive updates on this thread, but I didn't see anything!
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ECN Capability : disabled
RFC 1323 Timestamps : disabled
Initial RTO : 3000
Receive Segment Coalescing State : disabled
Non Sack Rtt Resiliency : disabled
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> click Advanced > Click the WINS tab > Under NetBIOS setting, click Enable NetBIOS over TCP/IP, and then click OK two times > Click Close to close the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box.
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Step 2: Start the Computer Browser service
Start > right-click My Computer > Manage > Double-click Services and Applications > Double-click Services > On the right side, right-click Computer Browser, and then click Start.
> Close the Computer Management window.
Step 3: Temporary disable firewall and antivirus programs for test.
It also can be caused by software conflicts. If the issue disappears in the Clean Boot environment, we can use a 50/50 approach to quickly narrow down which entry is causing the issue.
How to perform a clean boot to troubleshoot a problem in Windows 8, Windows 7, or Windows Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135
Since the issue does not occur in all computers, you should also compare the different settings between them to narrow down the cause.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Blair Deng
Blair Deng
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Scipt to prompt and authenticate users to AD and then map 2 next available drive letters to 2 network shares

Hi,
So I have been trying to write some code that will
prompt users to authenticate to AD and use that authentication to map the next 2 available drive letter to two network shares.
I have adopted using the HAT format as this provides me with the ability to prompt for a username and password and authenitcate to AD.
<script language="vbscript">
Function setSize()
window.resizeTo 350,300
Window.moveTo (screen.width-240)/2, (screen.height-600)/2
End Function
Function cmdSubmit_OnClick()
Dim strUser 'User Name variable
Dim strPW 'User Password variable
if auth.username.value = "" Then
msgbox ("ERROR: No User account information provided. Please Try Again!")
cmdSubmit_OnClick = False
Elseif auth.password.value = "" Then
msgbox ("ERROR: No User account information provided. Please Try Again!")
cmdSubmit_OnClick= False
Else
strUser = auth.username.value
strPW = auth.password.value
Authenticate strUser, strPW
End If
End Function
Public Sub Authenticate (Byref strUser, Byref strPW)
On Error Resume Next
Const ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION = &H1
Const ADS_SERVER_BIND = &H200
Dim strPath 'LDAP path where the Users accounts are listed
Dim LDAP 'Directory Service Object reference variable
Dim strAuth 'Parses the User Name and Password through the DSObject
strPath = "LDAP://fanzldap.au.fjanz.com/rootDSE"
Set LDAP = GetObject("LDAP://company/rootDSE")
Set strAuth = LDAP.OpenDSObject(strPath, strUser, strPW, ADS_SECURE_AUTHENTICATION Or ADS_SERVER_BIND)
If Err.number <> 0 Then
intTemp = msgbox(strUser & " could not be authenticated", vbYES)
if intTemp = vbYes Then
'window.location.reload()
End If
Else
For Each obj in strAuth
If obj.Class = "user" Then
If obj.Get("samAccountName") = strUser Then
msgbox ("Success! " & strUser & " has been authenticated with Active Directory")
window.close()
Set wShell = CreateObject("Wscript.shell")
wShell.run "Firstletterali.vbs"
End If
End If
Next
End If
End Sub
</script>
<head>
<body style="background-color:#B0C4DE">
<img src=Title.jpg><br>
<HTA:APPLICATION
APPLICATIONNAME="User Login"
BORDER="thin"
SCROLL="no"
SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
WINDOWSTATE="normal">
<title>NAS Authentication</title>
<body onload="vbs:setSize()">
<div class="style2">
<h3>NAS Archive Authentication</h3>
</div>
<form method="post" id="auth" name="auth">
<span class="style3"><strong>User Name:  </strong></span>
<input id="Username" name="Username" type="text" style="width: 150px" /><br>
<span class="style3">
<strong>Password:     </strong></span>
<input id="password" name="password" type="password" style="width: 150px" /><br><br>
      
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="cmdSubmit" />
<input type="button" value="Exit" onclick="self.close()">
</form>
</body>
</html>
using the above I can succefully authenticate users but I cant work out how to then use that authenticattion to map the next to available drive letters to a network source.
The code I have for that is
Option Explicit
Dim strDriveLetter, strRemotePath, strRemotePath1, strDriveLetter1
Dim objNetwork, objShell
Dim CheckDrive, DriveExists, intDrive
Dim strAlpha, strExtract, intAlpha, intCount
' The section sets the variables
strRemotePath = "\\mel\groups\Team\general"
strRemotePath1 = "\\mel\groups\Team\specific"
strDriveLetter = "B:"
strDriveLetter1 = "H:"
strAlpha = "BHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
intAlpha = 0
intCount = 0
err.number= vbEmpty
' This sections creates two objects:
' objShell and objNetwork and then counts the drives
Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objNetwork = CreateObject("WScript.Network")
Set CheckDrive = objNetwork.EnumNetworkDrives()
' This section operates the For ... Next loop
' See how it compares the enumerated drive letters
' With strDriveLetter
On Error Resume Next
DriveExists = False
' Sets the Outer loop to check for 24 letters in strAlpha
For intCount = 1 To 24
DriveExists = False
' CheckDrive compares each Enumerated network drive
' with the proposed drive letter held by strDriveLetter
For intDrive = 0 To CheckDrive.Count - 1 Step 2
If CheckDrive.Item(intDrive) = strDriveLetter _
Then DriveExists = True
Next
intAlpha = intAlpha + 1
' Logic section if strDriveLetter does not = DriveExist
' Then go ahead and map the drive
'Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " exists: " & DriveExists
If DriveExists = False Then objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive _
strDriveLetter, strRemotePath
call ShowExplorer ' Extra code to take you to the mapped drive
' Appends a colon to drive letter. 1 means number of letters
strDriveLetter = Mid(strAlpha, intAlpha,1) & ":"
' If the DriveExists, then it is necessary to
' reset the variable from true --> false for next test loop
If DriveExists = True Then DriveExists = False
Next
WScript.Echo "Out of drive letters. Last letter " & strDriveLetter
WScript.Quit(1)
'Sub ShowExplorer()
'If DriveExists = False Then Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " Has been mapped for archiving"
'If DriveExists = False Then objShell.run _
'("Explorer" & " " & strDriveLetter & "\" )
'If DriveExists = False Then WScript.Quit(0)
'End Sub
On Error Resume Next
DriveExists = False
' Sets the Outer loop to check for 24 letters in strAlpha
For intCount = 1 To 24
DriveExists = False
' CheckDrive compares each Enumerated network drive
' with the proposed drive letter held by strDriveLetter1
For intDrive = 0 To CheckDrive.Count - 1 Step 2
If CheckDrive.Item(intDrive) = strDriveLetter1 _
Then DriveExists = True
Next
intAlpha = intAlpha + 1
' Logic section if strDriveLetter1 does not = DriveExist
' Then go ahead and map the drive
'Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter1 & " exists: " & DriveExists
If DriveExists = False Then objNetwork.MapNetworkDrive _
strDriveLetter1, strRemotePath1
call ShowExplorer ' Extra code to take you to the mapped drive
' Appends a colon to drive letter. 1 means number of letters
strDriveLetter1 = Mid(strAlpha, intAlpha,1) & ":"
' If the DriveExists, then it is necessary to
' reset the variable from true --> false for next test loop
If DriveExists = True Then DriveExists = False
Next
WScript.Echo "Out of drive letters. Last letter " & strDriveLetter1
WScript.Quit(1)
Sub ShowExplorer()
If DriveExists = False Then Wscript.Echo strDriveLetter & " Has been mapped for archiving"
If DriveExists = False Then objShell.run _
("Explorer" & " " & strDriveLetter & "\" )
If DriveExists = False Then WScript.Quit(0)
End Sub
Now the above script will find the next availabe letter and map one location to it...I still havent worked out to create another loop for it to do it again. It obviously also requires that you already be authenticated to map to that location.
I looking for some help on how to marry these to scripts together.
Thanks
Ali

Hi Ali
Here is some code that will enumerate two free adjacent drive letters. It starts searching from "C" all the way to "Z" for two drives letters that are adjacent and returns the results in an array then echos the results. You can easily adapt this code to
map your network drives to each drive letter. Hope that helps
Cheers Matt :)
Option Explicit
Dim objFSO
On Error Resume Next
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
ProcessScript
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
WScript.Quit
End If
On Error Goto 0
'Functions Processing Section
'Name : ProcessScript -> Primary Function that controls all other script processing.
'Parameters : None ->
'Return : None ->
Function ProcessScript
Dim driveLetters, driveLetter
If Not GetFreeDrives(driveLetters) Then
Exit Function
End If
For Each driveLetter In driveLetters
MsgBox driveLetter, vbInformation
Next
End Function
'Name : GetFreeDrives -> Searches for a pair of free adjacent drive letters.
'Parameters : adjacentDrives -> Input/Output : variable assigned to an array containing the first two free adjacent drives.
'Return : GetFreeDrives -> Returns True if Successful otherwise returns False.
Function GetFreeDrives(adjacentDrives)
GetFreeDrives = False
Dim drive, driveLetter, drivesDict, i
Set drivesDict = NewDictionary
driveLetter = "C"
'Add the drives collection into the dictionary.
For Each drive In objFSO.drives
drivesDict(drive.DriveLetter) = ""
Next
'Check drive letters C: to Z: for two free adjacent drive letters and set the "driveLetter" variable to the first one.
For i = Asc(driveLetter) To Asc("Z")
If Not drivesDict.Exists(Chr(i)) And Not drivesDict.Exists(Chr(i + 1)) Then
driveLetter = Chr(i)
Exit For
End If
Next
'If two free adjacent drive letters were not found then exit.
If driveLetter = "" Then
Exit Function
End If
adjacentDrives = Array(driveLetter, Chr(Asc(driveLetter) + 1))
GetFreeDrives = True
End Function
'Name : NewDictionary -> Creates a new dictionary object.
'Parameters : None ->
'Return : NewDictionary -> Returns a dictionary object.
Function NewDictionary
Dim dict
Set dict = CreateObject("scripting.Dictionary")
dict.CompareMode = vbTextCompare
Set NewDictionary = dict
End Function

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