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login to windows server 2003 with roaming profiles

Asked by webdott in Windows 2003 Server, Network Management, Computer Servers

Tags: windows, server 2003, workstation, windows xp, romaing profile, login

i have a new setup with a new dual intel quad server with 4GB ram and 10 new quad core workstations with 4GB ram and a WD Velociraptor 10k rpm drive. everything should be fast, but the workstations are logging in slowly and the main program is running slow.

the old server was a single intel quad core server with 2GB that was 10 years old
and the workstations were single celeron core with 512MB ram.

the differences other than hardware was that the old server was setup in raid 5 with 3 drives and the new one is currently a single drive, but will be setup as a raid 1.
the old server had the OS in drive 1 and the program on the others
the old server also did not have the users documents on there.

the new server has the OS and the program on a single drive.
it also contains all users documents and settings since i have it set up as a
roaming profile for each user so that they can use any workstation. i also want to back up just the server.

so my question is, why is everything so slow?
the program is slow [ this is a database program for client info ]
login is slow 3-4 minutes.

should i keep the OS and program on the current drive and move the roaming profiles and documents to another? will accessing the program and documents on seperate drives help?
or even partitian the current drive by 3 partitians:
C: = OS
D: = Program
E: = Documents

just looking as to why such an large increase in hardware updates would run slower.

thanks

using windows server 2003 r2
using windows xp pro svc pk3
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