Hello everybody. I administrate small computer network - 30 computers.Mostly Win98 and 2 WinXP. I have a server - PDC Windows NT 4 sp 6a. The problems are: Very slow login, very slow file access on server. At users station sharing is allright but on server the access time is awfull. On server i have DHCP,Wins servers. Ping is okey at any time, name resolving is allright.. Help me pls. Any ideas.

when was the last time you defraged the server drive(s)?

goto my computer / properties / performance In boost, increase to maximum.

Yeee...Defrag i did it two days ago by myself and every night it start automaticaly. Boost already increased to maximum

Dear The first thing you see that all the servers are not on the same machine. Your FIle server and DHCP may be on one machine , rest take them onto another machine and cofigure the clients to access those servers accordingly. If possible, check for viruses and cure them, will perform better. ALso see that the anti-virus programs are not memory resident , may slow down the network. Anil Walvekar, Tech. Head, Anand.

Glad to hear you are defragging. That is usually the death of a server is not done. Your hardware looks OK. You don't mention having a BDC. A BDC assumes some of the authenication load thereby speeding up logons and resource access. The other area to look at is your topology. I assume you have a 10/100 switch and your server is connected to it at 100mb? What other switches/hubs do you have connected?

Everybody thanks a lot for your help. But the interesting thing for me - That network work about 8 years at the same configuration and everything was fine. Mounth ago the HASP service die and server began to halt and slow down. I reinstall WinNT like it was before... But it's again slow. About solving... Antivirus - AVP, i install it scan all drives and uninstall everything fine. About physical,hardware... I connect 2 PC one by another (WinNT,98) by croosover...nothing help...try another 100% good Network cards...the same. Defraged by DiskKeeper. DHCP,WINS and BDS Hmmm may be i'am wrong but the system monitor display that everything more than fine with al that services. Proccesor,Memory etc everything fine BDC - yeee a good way, but director thing it's a spending money for nothing... Any more ideas? Thanks for help