Windows 98 Preformance

David Collier-Brown
1998-11-13T20:37:32Z

You wrote:
|  On my NT client connected to a share, when I go into file
| manager for an example I get the directory structure almost
instantly.
| However when the 98 client does the same exact process on the same
| exact share, it take a good amount of time for the directory structure
| to come up.

	That could be a client hardware/config problem, but
	it could also be an effect of Windows 98 Explorer
	setting the 'sync" bit on every packet it sends.

	1.9.18p10 introduced the strict sync  option, which
	should be set to "no", just to deal with this problem.

--dave
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