Very slow logon

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Bill

We have a win2k network, single domain with remote offices
on a high speed wan connection. DNS is set up in AD and
DHCP points the clients to the proper servers. We have
pretty extensive use of Group Policy. After installation
of SP4 on the win2k clients, we are seeing excessively
slow logins (~30 minutes) on machines if they are booted
in the morning (when most users are booting their
machines.) If we reboot them in the afternoon, boot times
are nomal, pointing toward high network trafic slowing
things down. However, the slow logins in the morning were
not happening before SP4....

Does anyone have any suggestions? Does SP4 increase
network traffic during login? In the event log, the user
is not actually authenticated until ~30 minutes after they
punch in the password and hit enter.

Thanks in advance.
 
It would lead me to believe that you're crossing some kind of WAN for
authentication if you're experiencing such long delays. I'm assuming you've
already looked into what DC is authenticating the users?

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: We have a win2k network, single domain with remote offices
: on a high speed wan connection. DNS is set up in AD and
: DHCP points the clients to the proper servers. We have
: pretty extensive use of Group Policy. After installation
: of SP4 on the win2k clients, we are seeing excessively
: slow logins (~30 minutes) on machines if they are booted
: in the morning (when most users are booting their
: machines.) If we reboot them in the afternoon, boot times
: are nomal, pointing toward high network trafic slowing
: things down. However, the slow logins in the morning were
: not happening before SP4....
:
: Does anyone have any suggestions? Does SP4 increase
: network traffic during login? In the event log, the user
: is not actually authenticated until ~30 minutes after they
: punch in the password and hit enter.
:
: Thanks in advance.
 
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