Slow Browsing to Windows 98 or Windows Me Clients from Windows XP

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This article was previously published under Q322097

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SYMPTOMS

If the following conditions exist, you may experience slow browsing for file shares and printers that are on Microsoft Windows 98-based or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition-based computers:

You are browsing from a Windows XP-based client computer.
Both computers are part of a workgroup.
The Windows 98 or Windows Millennium Edition (Me) client has a password-protected file share.
You are using the "Save this password" feature on your Windows XP client computer.

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Windows XP saves the password in the Credential Manager. When you browse the same Windows 98 or Windows Me client, Credential Manager tries to contact a domain controller to validate the password. Because the computers are in a workgroup environment, there is no domain controller, and you must wait until the requests timeout.

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RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

322389 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322389/EN-US/ ) How to Obtain the Latest Windows XP Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date         Time   Version      Size     File name
   ------------------------------------------------------
   04-Jun-2002  17:29  5.1.2600.46  257,536  Kerberos.dll

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows XP Service Pack 1.

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