Joe Whitehead

USA

PC Tech

Network share taking minutes: likely, you're still using NetBIOS/IPX?

I've had little problems with TCP/IP shares, assuming they work at all. By work at all, I'm referring to having to configure the annoyingly different settings so that all PCs see each other and can access files. Once that is done, they work great. Of course, a local copy of FreeFTPd (SFTP/SCP) is a lot easier to configure, but only does files.

The delay on deleting files is because Windows Explorer uses an algorythm that wants to keep track of which files are deleted before deleting them. Command Prompt and *nix tend to just recurse the directory structure after choosing to delete them.