General discussion
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Topic
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Slow logins
LockedI have a Netware 5.1 sp7 server and a Windows 2003 AD domain. Some windows XP Pro (SP1a) PC’s with various versions of the Netware client (4.83 and newer) experience extremely long login times in the morning. I have found a few Novell TIDs that have randomly been of use, but no silver bullet yet. Thus far I have:
– Remove and reinstall client software of all versions.
– Set default protocol to IPX instead of IP (also tried the reverse).
– Reinstall client and removed NMAS option.
– Disable NMAS in advanced login page.
– Add preferred server name to general properties page.Thus far, some machines are ok, others continue to have this issue. It doesn’t seem to be the user object, but I have no objection to blowing it away and trying to re-create it. If I have the user login workstation only they can then use the client software to login to NDS from their desktop…this works perfectly every time.
I was convinced that the issue was the newer version of the client, but after backdating it to 4.83 and it still happens I’m no convinced of this.
This is a huge problem for me because the two people who are getting the worst of this are my boss and another senior VP…so this is making me look like an idiot. Lots of points for a silver bullet answer.