Fast Transfer Slow Access

[EnvisionIT]

Good afternoon everyone and I would like to thank in advance everyone for at least taking the time to read the issue i'm having.

I am helping a printing company upgrade their network and have replaced their 10/100 router and switches with gigabit, and replaced their aging Server 2003 server with a brand new 2008 Server. However, in the process, I managed to hit a bit of a wall.

Scenario:

1 Linksys WRVS4400N Gigabit Router
1 Cisco SR2024CT-NA 24 Port Gigabit Switch
1 Windows Server 2008 (Dual Xeon E5606 with 16GB memory)
~10 workstations all with gigabit NIC

On the prior 2003 server, their printer software database would load with a snap of a finger. On the new 2008 server it's like they're going around the world a couple dozen times before finally opening the database. I have been doing all sorts of research about properly setting up the DNS/Domain Controller and Active Directory but have yet to come up with any viable solutions to this issue and the peons at the printing company are getting restless.

I have sent files between the server and the workstations and i transfer between 12mbps and 15mbps.

 

[ICTCity]

Hi,

There're just 2 things you can do:

1) Disable IPv6 (if not needed) and exclude the program (and its path) from AV, Firewall and others.
2) If the point #1 doesn't help, you can't do anything else. The problem is the program itself, it probably uses some "old" call which can be processed by Srv 2k8 but slower than Srv 2k3.

I say this because I wrote a "dummy" program which opens a connection to SQL and shows results with graphs and so on... on Srv 2k3 everything worked fine, in Srv 2k8 it was simply painful. The problem was a f.... call of a routine that was "deprecated" by MS...

 

[EnvisionIT]

Thanks for the response. I was beginning to suspect just such an outcome. After further review of the software, it's using a "bastardized" version of MSSQL and even the software company, Pervasive in this case, says straight out that it's considered "Legacy Software" I have disabled IPv6 with no luck, as that was one of the first "hits" in doing my research into this problem. I started to get suspicious when PDFs, Word Documents, etc opened instantaneously. The only oddball problem is that when the program is run on the server and SQL is accessed, it's immediate. *shrugs*

 

[ICTCity]

Are you sure that there's no firewall blocking your connection or another software which scans something? Nod32 has a little problem with the option SCAN NETWORK DRIVE, if it's enabled, it may take up to 2 min to open a file...

 

[EnvisionIT]

(not by my choice) They do run Sophos, for whatever ungodly reason. I'll look into setting exceptions.

 

[ICTCity]

Mh... sophos... it sounds like a japanese food... eheheh

anyway... try to TEMPORARLY disable the japanese food (ahahah) and see if something changes.

 

[EnvisionIT]

http://www.sophos.com/en-us/

I gotta say, this is one of the biggest resource hogs i've ever encountered.

 

[ICTCity]

I gotta say, this is one of the biggest resource hogs i've ever encountered.

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