Hi there.
One of our clients is running SBS 2008 with Sharepoint installed as per default settings. Everything appears to work normally on a day to day basis.
In order to manipulate files they have a number of mapped drives which lead to particular documents libraries. This allows them to for example, attach a document to an email (which you can't do through the normal SharePoint web interface. Likewise they save accounts documents (from Sage) straight to these folders.
The issue is that from time to time these mapped drives respond very slowly ie normal access to the map drive would be a second or two and then for a period of a day or so drive access may reduce to 10 or 20 seconds. This will continue for a day or so and then go away. What is also strange is that this slowness doesnt effect all users at the same time ie one user may get normal access while another grinds to a halt. It doesnt appear to be a network issue as other network services appear to work fine during these slow downs ie acess to a normal mapped folder on the server.
I cant see anything obviously wrong (error logs etc) but im not really sure where to go with this one.
Martyn Fewtrell
mfewtrell@networkclub.co.uk