RE: Very slow Logins with WinXP Pro

A mandatory profile is a shared profile, it's normally read-only to everyone
except administrators - unlike a regular profile, where your personal
settings are saved at logoff and restored at logon - a mandatory profile does
not save any changes you make, therein giving you the same 'desktop' at every
login.

Mandatory profiles are also usually quicker to login/logout with due to
their static nature - however using a mandatory profile does limit the user
experience so they cannot customise their desktops/start menus and such
(unless you use folder redirection for this - and perhaps not even then).

Hope my explanation helps, if you need more information, google for
mandatory profile vs roaming profile (or similar) and it should give you a
comparison between them.

Arkane

"Mark" wrote:

What's a "mandatory" profile?


"Arkane" wrote:

If we use a new roaming or mandatory profile, the problem persists.
Profile sizes are around 40-50MB on average.

"Mark" wrote:

How big are the Roaming Profiles in MB or GB? If you setup a new test AD
account with no roaming profile at all, does it still take the same amount of
time?

Mark



"Arkane" wrote:

6x Win2003 DCs - 2 forests, connected via 2-way forest trusts.
DNS on client-end is set to each DC in turn, with the last DNS server being
the 'external' internet DNS.

All DNS servers use forwarders (DCs in DomainA use forwarders to DomainB and
vice-versa).

When we login to Windows XP Pro in a specific suite of PCs, login times are
a good 2-5 minutes plus, regardless of whether using mandatory or roaming
profiles.

The delay only seems to occur when you 'cold boot' a PC, if you leave it on,
log it in and then logoff and then login again - there's nowhere near such a
large delay.

It seems to 'stick' when you first login (username, password and domain box)
and sits for around 20-30 seconds until 'loading personal settings' comes up,
then sits there for a bit, then sits for a further minute or 2 on 'applying
personal settings'.

The login scripts have been ruled out as once the PCs get to this point,
they seem okay.

Any ideas or things I can check?

Arkane
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