Windows 2000 logon

[Guest]

Hi !

I have several W2k pro stations which are "off line" station (not connected
to my NT4 domain) even if they belong to the NT domain.
When users connect (enter login, password and my NT domain) the system takes
ages to logon because the station tries to find my NT domain PDC.
Do you know any registry parameters I can set in order to tell the station
to avoid searching any PDC (or reduce the time of searching) and connect off
line ?

Thanks for your help.

ZOLTAN

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Since you are not part of a W2K domain, go into the tcp/ip properties of the W2K
computers in properties/advanced/dns and uncheck register this dns connection which
would be used in a W2K domain for dynamic dns registering. The other thing that may
help is to configure those computers to be P node clients so that they will not
broadcast when they can not find the domain controller via wins.

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q119/4/93.asp&NoWebContent=1
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q160/1/77.asp&NoWebContent=1

Also consider having the users logon to a local computer account. --- Steve

 

[Guest]

Thank you Steve..

Since you are not part of a W2K domain, go into the tcp/ip properties of the W2K
computers in properties/advanced/dns and uncheck register this dns connection which
would be used in a W2K domain for dynamic dns registering. The other thing that may
help is to configure those computers to be P node clients so that they will not
broadcast when they can not find the domain controller via wins.

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q119/4/93.asp&NoWebContent=1
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/q160/1/77.asp&NoWebContent=1

Also consider having the users logon to a local computer account. --- Steve