Takes users 10 minutes to logon

[MJNSBF]

Yikes - I just setup a W2k Advanced server as domain controller. No other controllers in the domain (very simple setup). My problem, is that it takes some users 10 minutes to logon to the domain....it will say loading personal settings, then applying personal settings, and then finally get in. It does this on both windows 2000 and xp clients. What in the world would cause this? One pc is right next to the server.

thanks,
M

 

[Shift838]

DNS settings. If all your clients are obtaining IP viah DHCP of this server you need to make sure the DNS for the scope is set correctly. If this is the only server then DNS in the scope needs to be set to the server's IP address. In your DNS console you need to make pointers to your ISP's DNS servers.

Hope this helps.

I ran into the same issue about a year ago.

 

[930driver]

Another possible culprit is roaming profiles with Win2K clients. If you have roaming profiles set up everything in the Win2K profile gets copied from the server to the client at logon. It gets copied from the client to the server at logoff.

The profile includes the desk top. If they've dropped their favorite movie (what-have-you) on the desk top that gigabyte file gets copied across your network during logon. If the My Documents folder is in the Documents and Settings tree it gets copied as well.

Don't ditch your roaming profiles, rather counsel your users to only store short cuts on the desk top and provide them with a My Documents folder on the server.

This won't effect Win9x clients. "The Key, The Whole Key, and Nothing But The Key, So Help Me Codd!"

 

[MJNSBF]

Thank you both for your help. As it turns out, is was a dns issue where I needed to set the scope to the servers ip address, as Chris77504 stated. Now to make ptrs to ISP dns server.

Many thanks!

M