Very slow loggon

[Janis]

Greetings!
Maybe someone have any ideas.
Usaly people got problems with joining NT domain but
thats not my case my XP clients join without problems.
the problemis what it takes extremly long time to log on
(~10 minits) and then to ~ the same time to browse
resources but after that everything works just fine. i
tought that could be for 1st time loggons but nope thats
how from XP it is always. with w9x and w2kpro clients
everything forks in couple of seconds. Alredy tried all
things that help if XP dont join domin, in case it maybe
would help, but nope no effect Any ideas?
P.s. domain is on WinNT Server sp6a + almoust all other
updates.

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

quoted form http://www.ChicagoTech.net
Why is XP running slower while logon 1

When I login into a Windows 2000 active directory from a new xp pro machine
the login in is extremely slow. After logged on, everything works fine. But
other windows versions don't have this problem.
A: This is almost like name resolution issue. Comparing with previous
versions, XP is heavily dependent on DNS to find DC. If the DNS is
configured incorrectly, XP will take longer time waiting for it to timeout
before it tries using NetBIOS. Make sure
1) The DNS setup correct and have the server information.
2) XP clients can find the DNS server.
3) XP machine's DNS server is pointed to your internal DNS server rather
than your ISP's DNS server.
4) Make sure no errors on logon scripts or GPO's that could be causing
the delay.
5) Check any errors on event viewer.
6) Disable NetBIOS on the interfaces that client will not use.
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