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Slow logon to 2003 Server

What can I do to speed up my logon from the client machines to the server

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Netman66

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Kevin Hays

Other than what Netman66 said, which I would suspect you have your clients dns entries pointing toward either your ISP's dns servers or a router by chance and not your DNS server. If you are using roaming profiles you might want to think about folder redirection also.

You could post the IP configuration of your client machine for us to look at :)

jontyplatt

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no the DNS is set to the DNS server locally. is it better to have the DNS on ther server or on teh router? Do I need to statically assigne teh DNS on teh client machines - will this make it quicker?

Kevin Hays

Typically in a windows environment with a domain a simple setup would be as follows.

ServerA
- DNS
- DHCP
- DC
TCP Info:
IP: 192.168.1.2
Netmask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: IP of your router

ServerA resides inside your LAN. You would want all of your workstations to obtain IP automatically in a large environment. DHCP will also hand out and give the correct DNS entries for your workstations also. If you are not using DHCP and you are statically assigning IP's on your workstations then you will want to go ahead and assign the DNS server IP to use which would be (192.168.1.2). Remember, this is just ficticious IP's for examples only :)

I would rather have the DNS running as a service on my DC, but lots of people use the builtin DNS/dhcp that many routers use also though.