XP slow login on '03 domain & linked GP question

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From: Nathan H (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/21/04 

Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 11:52:24 +0100

Hi all

Although the subject tells it all really, just thought I'd add a bit of
detail (thus
the post to both groups)

Have migrated the users from a NT domain into my new 2003 domain and
they all seem fine...

 (except a few problems when they change their password from the default
the first time they logon... and the icons and start menu not appearing,
etc. even
after setting it up and creating a config.pol file)

...on the win 98 clients but with the XP clients, it takes AGES for them to
log on.
It must be a good 5 mins or more before they can do anything but when they
can,
its good but not great.

The mapped drives appear i.e. H: for a user's Home drive but I couldn't get
the
group policy I *tried* to work. It managed to almost lock me out of the
domain
controller (guess thats what I get for editing the default domain policy)
but nothing
whatsoever changed on the client machines :(

Any ideas on these topics as I thought they may be linked somehow!?

Also, any good sites & resources for learning about Group Policy, GPO's
etc.?, as
I'll never get sent on any training for it and my own budget would never be
able to
afford it either.

Kind Regards all,
Nathan H.
Network / IT Administrator - Ysgol Bro Ddyfi (Edu)

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