Re: Slow Logon Seen on Non-Member Clients

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From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:43:44 +0100

If WINS is involved then NetBT could play a factor. I'd say the reason it
was taking so long is because it was looking at the wrong DNS server, timing
out and then broadcasting.

If the 2000 boxes are fine and the XP aren't, there must be a common
discrepancy in the configuration. I can see no reason why XP would be
slower than 2000. 

-- 
Paul Williams
http://www.msresource.net
http://forums.msresource.net
______________________________________
"Armand" <bluesguitar@verizon.com> wrote in message 
news:2tv0rrF24a8u6U1@uni-berlin.de...
Our Senior Admin and WAN guy figured it out late yesterday to point to the
new DC DNS, but we're not sure we know why it took so long to authenticate
on the domain and why, we later found, that 2K clients were fine but it was
essentially the XP clients having difficulty.  Netbios over TCPIP maybe?
In article <OFSQf5IuEHA.1596@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>,
ptw2001@hotmail.com says...
>
>Ensure that you are pointing to the AD DNS servers.  Do not point to public
>DNS servers.  If you are not yet in the AD, and the old domain is NT, you
>should configure WINS.
>
>-- 
>
>Paul Williams
>
>http://www.msresource.net
>http://forums.msresource.net
>______________________________________
>"Armand" <helpmerhonda@comcast.com> wrote in message
>news:2tt44bF22omgfU1@uni-berlin.de...
>Hi all.
>
>All of our XP/2000 clients not a part of active directory (still pointing 
>to
>our old
>DNS servers) are experiencing very slow logons of up to 5-6 minutes. If we
>add them to AD, the logon is quick. we use DHCP as opposed to static IP's.
>Is there anything we can do to get around this until we can get all users 
>on
>the AD. TIA.
>
>

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