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I am still having trouble with XP machines not logging in. But this time i am after information. I need to know what XP does before the login prompt and after. Also when does it send out a dhcp request and when it established connection to the network. Thanks to all that have helped me so far.

Have you looked at using the data repeater control, this could help and it can be placed straight onto the form.

Can you give us more information about what the program is going to do. Would Excel be better than Word because you can use VB to get the information out of the cells.

I have already posted this on the XP forum so if this seems familiar thats why We are using NT Server 4.0 with service pack 6, our workstations are XP and NT. the NT workstations get their dhcp lease and its set to last 9 days and then they renew the lease. The XP machines renew their lease...

The logging in can take up to 10 minutes to get past the "loading personal settings". I have had a look at the event log and it seems to stop before "Network Settings". We are using WINS and DNS, but not LMHOSTS.

The XP machines are both laptops and desktops and they both having the login trouble. Thye are both connected the same to the network. They go straight to cisco switches.

The NT Server is setup so that the leases expire after 9 days. The NT machines do this properly but the XP machines don't. We are guessing its an XP problem, some setting or service is incorrectly configured.

We have NT machines that keep their lease even when the computer is turned off. I am slightly confused on why it is always renewing the lease.

The problem that we are having is that when the computer is turned on it doesn't check that the lease has expired. It just re-news the lease each time. it does not wait till 60% of the remaining time is left.

Our XP workstations are getting a new DHCP lease everytime they are turned on. We are running a NT 4.0 Domain controller and the NT machines on the network get a new lease when their current lease expires. We have the leases set to expire every 9 days, but the XP machines get a new licence...

We are just wondering if this will affect the logging on of users. We are using a DOS based command (Net Time) as part of our login script. As our server is a NT 4.0 Server and pcs are XP, we think this may be our problem.

We are not using a Windows 2000 server here, we are using a NT Server so would this document help us or should we do something different?

Okay to answer the questions. DNS server implementation - Yes using WINS - Yes using LMHOSTS - No profiles are Roaming 2meg pipe for internet service Anything else?

We are having a large problem here with XP logging into a NT Domain. When a user logs in the computer sits there with the message "loading network settings", it can sit there for up to 5 mins before actually getting into XP. This can happen more than once in a row and if you pull out...