desktops grind to a halt / could it be the network config?

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Peter

We have a small network: 15 win2k machines on folks'
desktops, one win2k network share and one samba share. The
client machines map several drives from each share. From
time to time, one of the client machines will suddenly
freeze up and, if you have the patience, operate at
dramatically slow speeds (i.e. changing focus to a new
appliation takes like 30 seconds). Usually, the only thing
that fixes this a reboot. We've tried looking at task
manager, killing any extraneous process, sniffed the
network, removed serial devices, etc. and nothing seems
obviosly wrong and nothing "unslows" the computer except a
reboot. There's a general feeling that it may have
something to do with the network configuration, as the
"initiator" event sometimes seems to be doing a "save as"
in some application which brings up a computer browser-ish
interface, and clicking the "change drive" dropdown or the
plus sign to expand "my computer" (depending on the
application-specific save-as functionality), which then
hangs for quite some time.

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Peter
 
Could be anything yet. If you've looked at taskmanager and event viewer,
there should be the exact picture rather than a general feeling, at least
from the software point. Please narrow the details.
 
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