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Logging into a Windows 2003 Server, w/XP Professional

Why when loggining into a DC(Windows 2003 server), it takes so long to log on and finish booting XP Professional? What is the machine doing, they were not like this in a normal boot, without login prompts. Is there something we can do to speed it up? The screens that show are.......

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NJComputerNetworks

this is most likely caused to misconfigured DNS settings in TCP/IP.

Make sure that the client machine points to your internal Windows domain controller/DNS server. Do not point client machines any other DNS servers...

NJComputerNetworks

When it hangs like this, it is probably looking for you domain using DNS... if you have the TCP/IP DNS settings pointing to some other DNS server (like a router or the ISP DNS server), you will experience this slow bootup process and your clients will have trouble "talking" to the domain.

cgbent

You might also want to look into the process in which all your services are being started on the client machines. If for instance you have a service trying to start before one of dependants had a chance to start then you will experience exactly what you described.

In my case, awhile back I was having problems with the RPC service starting properly which in turn caused netlogon on a few clients to not run causing 10-15 minutes worth of loading.

Harold

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DNS is installed on DC and has it's IP as the listening IP. If the client computers are getting an IP from a router, DHCP, we have to hard code the IP of server in DNS settings?

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Harold

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Ok, I have a couple things to look at and try which will take a little time, as the box is a customers server, not here, so bare with me as I test this.

Harold

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Now I have to figure out what my best DHCP setup is, with the VPN tunnels we have in place!!!!

Thanks
Harold