Why the speed difference

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Gary

Few days ago, I copied about 1800MB of files from a workstation from a
Server mapped drive to another section in the same mapped drive, cause I was
too lazy to go to the Server and do it from there.

I thought being on the same server should only take a few minutes, but after
a while about 15minutes I checked back and the copying was still underway
about 50% completed. I cancelled it out, and went to the Server directly and
it finished in front of my eyes in no time at all, like seconds rather than
minutes

Any ideas why is this so? We're on a Win2000 domain, Wkstn is XP, DNS is
good, we have no major delays otherwise.

TIA
 
because you are doing the copy from a networked machine all the data passes
through that machine and hence over the network twice. its almost
equivalent to copying it to the remote machine then copying it again to the
server.
 
Well that explains it then, I guess I will have to use the Server next time
instead, and do some walking which will be of benefit anyway!
Thanks for the reply, appreciated.
 
Well, if you want to be "lazy" or the server is to far away to walk to or
whatever:

1. install Terminal Services in Remote Administration Mode, then use Windows
XP's built in Remoted Desktop Connection (Start, All Programs, Accessories,
Communication) to logon remotely. Then you can do almost anything you need
to as if you were physically at the server. WIth Windows 2003 Server, the
equivalent of TS in RA mode is automaticly installed.

or

2. in Start, Run, key \\servercomputername and press Enter. From the
Windows Explorer window that opens, double click on Scheduled Tasks; right
click in the right pane and select New, Scheduled Task. Use an XCOPY or
robocopy command to do whatever you need to do. You can set the schedule so
it starts almost right away or for some time later.


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