I thought about that too so I took ownership of all files in that directory. That is the local administrator's account took ownership. Also we have other files that are owned by members of the other domains but I've not noticed any slowness there. Good idea though.

After copying the files to a FAT volume, the script runs fine. I copied the files back to the NTFS volume and the script ran fine. I recreated the share reset the permissions and the script runs gets slow again. At least now I know the problem lies in the sharing or permissions and I can work with that. Thanks very much.