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Very slow login authentication with XP

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by ltclay

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I am setting up a W2K server which has 2 win89 boxes and 1 XP box as clients. For some reason after joining the XP box to the domain the login process is painfully slow somtimes taking as much as 4 minutes. The two win89 boxes login in very fast. I have setup this same scenario at home and get the same type of slow login response. The w2k server is a duel PIII 800 with 512 megs ram. I can only think that there is something in particular with XP that I am unaware of. Both XP box and server 2000 have the latest patches. The setup at work and the setup at home have some hardware differences so it leads me to believe that its something with XP
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by gperrie

If you have Active Directory check your DNS settings, I've seen some problems like this in the past and its always been DNS related

Gavin

by hjs

Yep DNS. I fixed mine by adding the IP address of the DNS server in the TCP/IP properties.

by shanghai sam

Here IS the fix :) Of course, your question leaves some variables open, such as Internet connection, DHCP settings, if any etc. I am going to give you the work-up that I did recently for a client of ours. They had a pretty simple scenario:

Off Site ISP for Internet
1 Win2K server [Priv IP 10.0.0.2]; Config'd as DHCP server
20 WinXP Workstations

First of all, you must 'forward' DNS requests to the ISP DNS. Do this by doing the following:

1. Go to your W2K server.
2. Start>Programs>Admin Tools>DNS
3. Right-Click on your Server>Properties
4. Click on the Fowarders Tab
5. Check the "Enable Forwarders" box
6. Add your ISP's DNS info and Click the OK's

As I mentioned earlier, the W2K Server was setup to DHCP so when configuring DHCP for the clients, I added <005> Name Server within the Scope options and entered 10.0.0.2 as the DNS Server (Remember-the DNS server is your W2k and Inernet DNS requests are forwarded to the ISP).

At the XP stations, release/renew.
(Ofcourse, if you aren't running DHCP, simply put in the W2K ip your DNS (as mentioned in other posts). Also, you can enter your local domain name (local.domain) in the DNS suffix field.

I did the exact steps above and had ZERO problems.

Probably too much info, but, better too much than too little.

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