sllooooow opening Office docs

[Don Montalvo]

Noam Birnbaum <noam at maccentricsolutions.com> wrote:

> One of our clients is complaining that multiple people are having
> difficulty opening Microsoft Office documents
> (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, etc.) in a timely matter over AFP or SMB.
> This occurs in both Office 2004 and 2008.  This does NOT affect non-
> Office file types like PDF, JPEG, etc.
>
> The clients (running Leopard) are accessing these documents from an
> Xserve running Leopard Server (10.5.2) that is hosted remotely.  No
> one has access to the server locally.
>
> What think?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Noam Birnbaum

Network home dir?

DOn