If the network drive is Windows 2000, ideally it should be patched to SP3, some caching issues were addressed only by that SP.
You can try disabling opportunistic locking as per links in the following message:
Re: Disturbing Windows 2000 Caching Problem Thread #
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669887
Regards. Al
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