I have WebDav setup on Win2k3, IIS6. The purpose for this WebDav is to allow professors to access their home folders while they are at home or out of town. I didn't want to do FTP because of security reasons so I thought the WebDav would be a better alternative. When I am at home and trying to add a network place to map to the virtual directory created it will create just fine. The problem is once I try to open the folder it is horribly slow from that point on. There are 2,000 folders at the share point. Even if I do manage to get into my own home folder it is still slow trying to open anything. I have also opened IE and typed in the URL to this virtural directory and it comes up lightening fast. I can browse directories without any problems. However, I don't like the option of opening in IE since most professors will not understand what to do...adding the network place is more what they are use to. Why is everything so painfully slow when going the route of adding a network place and is there anything I can do to fix it?
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Yes, my server was at SP1 and is patched with all the latest patches. This server is a Gateway 975 server, 2 Xeon 2.80Ghz processors, 2 GB ram. It also has a Gateway iscsi San attached to it that has 1.9TB space. It is running Windows Server 2003 and is a member server in the domain. Thanks in advance for the help! : )
Still having very slow response when using My Network Places. Did some testing with another product, Webdrive, and response time is much better. I'm assuming there is some type of issue with the Microsoft My Network Places but have no clue where to begin to make it better. Might have to just purchase this product and go that route.
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by: sachin_raoranePosted on 2005-12-22 at 21:45:35ID: 15540170
Have You Upgraded to Windows Server 2003 to Service Pack 1, There are known issues related to WEbDav which are fixed in SP1, which can be found here.
http://support.microsoft.c
If you have not patched your Windows Server 2003 Please do so & let me know if there is any improvement. If there is no imporvement Please Let me know the configuration of your server.