Guest it-support Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 Hi, Our server runs 2003 with XP client. Our XP clients takes about 5-10 seconds to login and until you see the start menu. Introduction: We have had issues before were login took as long as a couple of minutes which was a troublesome timesink for us. We fixed this issue however, by setting the DNS manual to point to out server. To make it simple I used the groupeditor and specified what DNS clients are supposed to use. Simple and efficient, and the alternative to change dns on clients are now grey:ed out - just like I want it. Our problem: Recently I setup a new client and I discovered that it was not affected by the servers DNS policy and did not have the alternative for dns grey:ed out. Other policies, like for example disabling security center abides the server policy and is also disable on this client. The problem is at login in, it takes ages... sometimes 5-10 minutes. Today it has been sitting for 20 minutes and trying to login. I have no idea what is wrong with this machine. Any clues? I would be very grateful for some help on this. Thanks in advance. The new client that I installed was previously used by another user, and the computers "switched" users. I removed both computers from our domain. Switched the computers machine names locally and then connected them to the domain. At first the same computer with login issues had the same IP adress as the other for some reason and I could still login to the domain but I couldnt reach the network. After I reinstalled the network adapter it seemed to be solved and didnt give it any more thought. I dont know if this might have something to do with the above issue.
Guest johnboy007 Posted August 7, 2007 Posted August 7, 2007 RE: Single client has enormously slow login. The machine names are associated with a unique SID and it sounds as though AD is having a problem with that. You will solve it by taking them off them off the domain giving them a unique name and joining them back to the domain. Need more help? Just post back "it-support" wrote: > Hi, > Our server runs 2003 with XP client. Our XP clients takes about 5-10 seconds > to login and until you see the start menu. > > Introduction: > We have had issues before were login took as long as a couple of minutes > which was a troublesome timesink for us. We fixed this issue however, by > setting the DNS manual to point to out server. > > To make it simple I used the groupeditor and specified what DNS clients are > supposed to use. Simple and efficient, and the alternative to change dns on > clients are now grey:ed out - just like I want it. > > Our problem: > Recently I setup a new client and I discovered that it was not affected by > the servers DNS policy and did not have the alternative for dns grey:ed out. > Other policies, like for example disabling security center abides the server > policy and is also disable on this client. > > The problem is at login in, it takes ages... sometimes 5-10 minutes. Today > it has been sitting for 20 minutes and trying to login. > > I have no idea what is wrong with this machine. Any clues? I would be very > grateful for some help on this. Thanks in advance. > > > The new client that I installed was previously used by another user, and the > computers "switched" users. I removed both computers from our domain. > Switched the computers machine names locally and then connected them to the > domain. At first the same computer with login issues had the same IP adress > as the other for some reason and I could still login to the domain but I > couldnt reach the network. After I reinstalled the network adapter it seemed > to be solved and didnt give it any more thought. I dont know if this might > have something to do with the above issue.
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