I just installed AD on a Win server 2003 EE (new forest and the only machine
with AD loaded), and when I now log into the domain from my win server 2003
standard edition workstation, it is really slow, both before and after I
enter my password. About 5-7 min total. It seems to take longest when the
boxes says "applying personal settings" (again both before and after
password). Now both machines are 800Mhz, with 256ram. It is not a slow log
in when the workstation logs into itself nor when the server logs into the
domain so I figure hardware is not the issue. I haven't tried another
machine (I do have 2 others that I plan on adding to the AD, they are
currently in their own workgroup), I was hoping to resolve this first. I
realize I don't have much info here about configuration, but I was hopin for
some suggestions on where to look to speed it up. I don't have anything
else loaded on the AD box, and the profile for the workstation is local to
itself. I was planning on adding exchange 03 to the AD box, but I'm afraid
that the performance will be bad. But for now I need to speed up the log
in.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
gv

Make sure DNS are correct defined at the particular workstation. DNS should
point to the Domain Controller running an AD integrated dns zone. You should
be available to ping the AD DNS name by FQDN like ping company.com and get
response from your Domain Controller from your workstation.

DNS and Active Directory
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...rvices-dns.asp
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Christoffer Andersson

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We had the same issue and it was a replication problem,
the DC where not communicating very well. you have to
configure your subnets to their respective servers and
bridge link the servers on the AD users and computers.


Thanks

Much thanks, that did it, although I had to put the IP address of my gateway
first, and the AD/DNS 2nd, because with out the first one set to the
gateway, I couldn't resolve and url names.
Thanks again



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You will want to remove *any* DNS settings from your clients except the
setting pointing it to your AD DNS server. For Internet access you will need
to configure forwarding on your AD DNS server. See:
How to: Configure DNS for Internet Access In Windows 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;300202



You will have problems in the future if you have your AD clients pointing to
*other* servers plus your AD DNS server. It should point to the DNS server
for AD ONLY.



For the Internet the AD DNS server should forward requests to your ISP's DNS
servers.



hth

DDS W 2k MVP MCSE



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Chriss3

Can I get you to email me at Danny.(nospam)Sanders@cpcmed.org?

Remove the (nospam)

Thanks
Danny
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