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Nightmare logon time.

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by quoch

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Hi everybody,

All of the computers in my company last month are in windows 98SE, windows 2000, XP and netware server 3.12. Last week I have changed the server to windows 2000 domain and I see that the computer with 98SE login the the domain very fast(10 seconds) but the computers with windows 2000 pro or XP pro login to the domain very slow (~3 minutes). Many of my users feel very uncomfortable.

If any one know how to speed up the logon process, please help me.

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Quoc.

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by quintar51

I would take a look at several things.

First, check the event viewer for any messages that come up at the same time you log in.

The problem can also be that's it's taking a long time to resolve names, ie DNS. Again, the event viewer most likely will give you some sort of error or warning message.

Also, check the protocols that are being used on the 98 machines and compare them to your win2000/xp clients. Are you using more than one? You can use TCP/IP alone for all machines.

The problem can also be a service that is failing to start, and therefore is timing out, which makes you wait a long time.

good luck,

by quintar51

If you do find an event in the event log but not sure what it means, you can go to
www.eventid.net->search events->event parser. You can then copy and paste the actual message and lookup the results.

by f-baer

(non english user)
please tell me more about your tcp/ip configuration, using logonscript? groups? active directory? wins? IEEE 802.1x , static ip etc..

by moodye

go to the properties tab of your nic and make sure that the connection type is set to auto sense

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