I recently upgraded my nt4 server to 2003 server. installation went fine, no glitches. all my win 2000 machines run fine just they always did. my win xp machines have trouble sometimes opening shared files in their user folders. worked fine before the 2003 upgrade. the same files work fine on 2k machines

shared permissions are the same, firewall on or off doesn't make any difference.

problem seems to come and go, sometimes working fine, other times just opening the file causes it to go to not responding, if it does open, opening a doucument causes programs such as word or excel to go to not responding condition.

example yesterday one machine was working fine, high speed opening, wouldn't lock up at all, this morning same machine is back to problem mode.

another note. even though the server manager sees the machines logged on, it will not send a console message to them.

2 days now and i don't have much hair left to pull out... (and they wonder why i drink) any help would be appreciated

Can you please explain this part again? Where are the shares?

the folders are on the 2k3 server in a folder called users, subfolders are made for each of the employees to keep their documents. ex: f:\users f:\users\smith f:\jones

Are you using home folders for this (Z:)? Is F: the server drive or the users' mapped drive letter? Is your DNS correctly pointing to the 2003 server?

on a hunch, we uninstalled the QoS packet scheduler from the network properties. all 4 xp machines seem to be running fine and back up to speed now. not sure if it is just a coincidence or if that really was the culpret. thanks for the help

if this comes back try using ipx/spx protocal as well as installing tcp/ip v6 on the server

doing this cleared up the problems we where having at a clients office

it seems that sometimes windows xp tcp/ip mode dosnt work properly for some reasion and stalls out for lan use yet still allows internet access(WTF???)

ipx/spx works fine though i even set it up with a uniq id to each box so that print sharing could be done through it seen as the xp machiens would also not print when they would stall out on accessing the server (server is also the print server at this office)

hope you dont have anymore issues with it good luck

the ipx/spx didn't do it. i did remove the xp machines from the domain and mapped the shared drive to them. all seem to be running full steam and no lag for almost a week now. not sure why it is working but i'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth. thanks for all the input and help