I don't know if this helps, but we went a different route in our install.
We left all the default menus and locations alone and just put our custom
menus in one location on the network. We used 'menucmd' to replace parts of
the default menus that we wanted changed. We have noticed a significant
decrease in 'drawing opening' time from 2002 to 2004 doing it this way.
Now, I can't say that setting up the menus this way is the reason for the
faster times - it's possible that it's just a 2K4 thing. But our 2002 setup
was the same as you described.
"John Crocco" wrote in message
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> I have a file server that I share the common acad startup files for all
> autocad in the office. This
> allows me to edit only one set of files, and everyones startup is
identicle.
>
> Since we added a new XP machine, with all others running NT4.0, We seem to
> have network problems with
> opening autocad. No other network problems are noticed, as everything
else
> seems to be
> unaffected. When opening a drawing, the drawing opens up quickly in
either
> OS, but then when its loading the startup files, could take 2-5 minutes,
> EACH DRAWING.
>
> Is there a problem with XP accessing autocad files used by other machines?
>
> Has anyone else encountered such a problem?
>
>
> --
> John Crocco
>
>
