Question : Weird Network Problem

I have been asked to fix a problem on a network that I do not administor.  Here is what is happening.  Every Computer on the Network has a mapped drive (W:) to the server.  The server is a Dell Windows 2003 64bit server in a domain environment.  All client machines are Windows XP Pro with Office 2003 Pro.  All of the computers have the My Documents pointed to the server.  The server seems to run great but there is some issue.

The issue is that when opening a document it sometimes takes along time to open. In this office we are almost always talking an office document.  If you open the document from the program (ie. Word) it does not take as long.  Odd!  They have had word crash and when opening or saving a document.  Any ideas?

Thanks for the help!

Answer : Weird Network Problem

Opportunistic Locking?  I think we are reaching here, but....   :)

what the heck, why not try disabling it, eh?  :)

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=296264