Re: Slow logon to domain

Tech-Archive recommends: Speed Up your PC by fixing your registry

The most common cause of slow logins on AD is misconfigured DNS - all domain
clients should use only a domain DNS server, domain DNS servers should
resolve all external address requests via forwarding or root hint servers.

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"Deanna" <Deanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2A9BB072-DA7B-4CEA-9BA3-8DD564449C62@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a workstation that was just rebuilt with Windows XP SP2 that has
been
joined to the existing Windows 2003 domain.

If a user that has a logon script designated in their AD properties on the
Profile tab as well as a Home Directory specified on the same tab, there
is a
delay of about 15 minutes for the logon of that user to complete. Any
user
(administraotr or non-administrator) that does not have those two items
configured can log on successfully with no delay. If the logon script is
the
only component configured on the Profile tab then the user can log on but
the
drives from the logon script are not mapped. If the Home Directory is the
only component configured on the Profile tab then the logon is delayed
slightly (1-2 minutes), the directory is mapped and accessible, and event
ids
1053, 40960, and 40961 are logged.

The rest of the network is functioning correctly and the issues stated
above
seem to only affect new workstations on the domain. Any help would be
appreciated.

Deanna


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