I will try to disable IPv6 and see what that does. I do not do POP email with this machine. It connects to our local mail server with seemingly no hangup, though the mail server is running SuSE Linux and not Windows.
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Browse All TopicsI have about 60 PCs on an Active Directory Network. Two of the PCs are Windows Vista Business and the rest are all Win XP Pro. I just recently replaced an old Linux Samba file server with a new Windows 2003 file server. The XP machines are accessing the shares on the Windows 2003 server just fine, but the Vista machines really hang when opening a share, opening any file within the share or just to list the contents of the share.
Any settings in Vista or on the 2003 server that might cause these hangups? I have disabled the share from allowing files offline and have also disabled Remote Differential Compression on the Vista machines and it doesn't seem to help.
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by: beowulfsPosted on 2007-12-11 at 13:10:05ID: 20452801
did you try unchecking IPv6 in Vista as well as the link layers. i'm not saying to leave it like this, but it's another thing to check.
this is for an unrelated, but it's also something else to try:
If you are having issues with POP email responding very slowly or not at all in Vista, try this:
Open an elevated command prompt (click on the Start Orb and type "cmd". Then, when the cmd icon appears in the list, "right-click" on it and choose "Run As Administrator.") and type "netsh int tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled" without quotes. You should get the response Ok. one line down and a new prompt 2 lines below that.