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Windows 2003 takes several minutes to login

Hi All

Recently i promoted my windows 2003 pc to Domain Controller. I found a small problem when i on my server it takes several minutes at "preparing network connections" (approx 5 mins.) and then its displaying the login screen. What could be the problem here? i did not configured and DSN i just select to confgure automatically while promoting it to domain. Before i promoted it to DC the login was very fast (less then a min) can some help on this issue.

Regards
Cherukuri

Dave_Dietz

When a machine is a DC it has a lot more to configure and set up when booting.

It is not unusual to see a longer boot time when a machine is a DC vs. a member server.

(Try adding Exchange to the server if you want to see a really long boot time.....)

Dave Dietz

Netman66

Run Netdiag /v and output the results to a text file. The command is like so:

netdiag /v > c:\netdiag.txt

Run through the file and see if there are any DNS errors. Normally, long boot times are attributed to a DNS entry that is missing or incorrect.

Sridhar Cherukuri

ASKER

Dear Friend as you recommended i ran through netdiag and posting the DNS Test results here:

DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Fail
[WARNING] Cannot find a primary authoritative DNS server for the name
'server.DOMAIN.'. [RCODE_SERVER_FAILURE]
The name 'server.DOMAIN.' may not be registered in DNS.
[WARNING] Cannot find a primary authoritative DNS server for the name
'server.DOMAIN.'. [RCODE_SERVER_FAILURE]
The name 'server.DOMAIN.' may not be registered in DNS.
[WARNING] Cannot find a primary authoritative DNS server for the name
'server.DOMAIN.'. [RCODE_SERVER_FAILURE]
The name 'server.DOMAIN.' may not be registered in DNS.
[WARNING] The DNS entries for this DC are not registered correctly on DNS se
rver '203.121.16.85'. Please wait for 30 minutes for DNS server replication.
[WARNING] The DNS entries for this DC are not registered correctly on DNS se
rver '203.121.16.120'. Please wait for 30 minutes for DNS server replication.
[WARNING] The DNS entries for this DC are not registered correctly on DNS se
rver '202.188.0.133'. Please wait for 30 minutes for DNS server replication.
[WARNING] The DNS entries for this DC are not registered correctly on DNS se
rver '202.188.1.5'. Please wait for 30 minutes for DNS server replication.
[FATAL] No DNS servers have the DNS records for this DC registered.

Please can you tell me what went wrong, with the above description

Thanks and Regards

Sridhar

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