File copy issues

Tardy · 05-17-2007, 06:54 AM

I have a Windows Server 2003 with sp2 and all patches. My clients are XP clients. The clients are located in a seperate building\subnet then the server. For some reason starting last week file transfers became extremely slow from the server to the client. Something that took less then a minute before is now taking 46 minutes. If I go to a client in another building\subnet file transfers are fine. Our IT department has checked all switches in the area and can find no problems and they are pretty competent so I tend to trust them. In addition, I have taken a laptop to the area and witnessed the slow transfer on it and then immediately walked to another building with the same laptop and it has worked fine so possibly client differences between buildings is ruled out. Here is the weird part, If I make a Remote Desktop setting to the server in the affected area and copy the file in the remote desktop session and then past it to the client desktop the file transfer is fine. It is only when I connect to the share and initiate the transfer. At this point i am at an absolute loss. If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it.

Tardy · 05-18-2007, 07:42 AM

Also, if I upload to the server it is fine. In addition if I connect to a server in the same subnet as the affected server it is fine.

newhouse1390 · 05-18-2007, 10:35 PM

You cannot think of any hardware software configuration that could have affected this. Things break for a reason. I would check with your operations team and verify there has been no change with any routers/firewalls.

Tardy · 05-21-2007, 06:54 AM

In addition, we found one 2000 client in that area and they work fine. We have also been starting to get SVChost errors on clients.

Tardy · 05-30-2007, 06:52 AM

We found that if we backed communications to 10 MB that it was fine. That led me to re-approach the infrastructure team who, on further testing, found that a link between two switches was bad. So this little mystery is resolved.

05-17-2007, 06:54 AM	#1 (permalink)
Tardy Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 4 OS: Vista	File copy issues I have a Windows Server 2003 with sp2 and all patches. My clients are XP clients. The clients are located in a seperate building\subnet then the server. For some reason starting last week file transfers became extremely slow from the server to the client. Something that took less then a minute before is now taking 46 minutes. If I go to a client in another building\subnet file transfers are fine. Our IT department has checked all switches in the area and can find no problems and they are pretty competent so I tend to trust them. In addition, I have taken a laptop to the area and witnessed the slow transfer on it and then immediately walked to another building with the same laptop and it has worked fine so possibly client differences between buildings is ruled out. Here is the weird part, If I make a Remote Desktop setting to the server in the affected area and copy the file in the remote desktop session and then past it to the client desktop the file transfer is fine. It is only when I connect to the share and initiate the transfer. At this point i am at an absolute loss. If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate it.

05-18-2007, 07:42 AM	#2 (permalink)
Tardy Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 4 OS: Vista	Re: File copy issues Also, if I upload to the server it is fine. In addition if I connect to a server in the same subnet as the affected server it is fine.

05-18-2007, 10:35 PM	#3 (permalink)
newhouse1390 Member, Networking Team Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Ohio Posts: 1,040 OS: Windows Server 2003	Re: File copy issues You cannot think of any hardware software configuration that could have affected this. Things break for a reason. I would check with your operations team and verify there has been no change with any routers/firewalls. __________________ Because you can read this thank a teacher, because it's English thank a soldier.

05-21-2007, 06:54 AM	#4 (permalink)
Tardy Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 4 OS: Vista	Re: File copy issues In addition, we found one 2000 client in that area and they work fine. We have also been starting to get SVChost errors on clients.

05-30-2007, 06:52 AM	#5 (permalink)
Tardy Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 4 OS: Vista	Re: File copy issues We found that if we backed communications to 10 MB that it was fine. That led me to re-approach the infrastructure team who, on further testing, found that a link between two switches was bad. So this little mystery is resolved.