Windows 2008 R2 file copy freezing

I have two windows 2008 R2 64 bit servers. I'm trying to copy a large amount of files (over 1000/as little as 500 mg) and at about 30-40% it just hangs. waited overnight a few times but no change. The nic is set to 1 gig full auto and verified that
the port is as well.
Nic is a Broadcom BCM5709c NetXtreme IIGigE.
I have disabled IPV4 large send offload and IPV4 checksum offload.
IPV6 is disabled on the cards already.

How you are copying these files ? is it normal copy / paste or Robocopy ?
For larger files, You have to user Robocopy as best practice,
Please go through below Robocopy library link and complete your task using Robocopy
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145.aspx
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Manjunath Sullad

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all tests done using "net view \\target", but similar results were seen when using "dir \\target\share" which the domain user and local system account have access to.
the differing behavior between client1 and client 2 suggests that server 2003 requires additional configuration to allow its local system account to access an SMB share by alias.
this problem prevents group policy features (such as software installation) from an aliased file server.

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