>Just got a strange call from an Italian customer.
>
>They just installed the app at two win 98 Workstations with a win 2000 server.
>The application just opens neraly empty tables from the server.
>
>At one place the application works fine.
>
>At the other place it takes ten minutes to open up the tables (as apposed to
>1 min). Before they told me it was hanging and didn't wait ten minutes.
>
>I told them to install DCOM98 after that it took two minutes to open up.
>
>I asked her and she said it was an 100mb ethernet.
>
>Next strange thing (besides the DCOM effect) is that the PC that works fine is in the same room as the server so it's pgysically closer and not on a hub.
>
>At the other place I asked them to change the hub and it had no effect.
>
>I am thinking maybe the one PC was a crap cable or crap card or a token ring cable or card.
>
>But why could DCOM have such an effect?
>
>Any other ideas?

If you do a search, there have been some recent threads concerning slow file opening with multiple W98 clients working against a W2K server. The first one gets in fine (fast performance), subsequent ones are slow.

One thing that has helped is to disable antivirus software. If disabling it makes no difference, try UNINSTALLING it.

For other ideas, take a look at the earlier threads.