Joining Vista Prof. to domain

[George]

Why does it take so long for Vista to join a domain?

I have a vista pro machine. Locally everything works fine
local user signs on builds the desktop quickly.

From the local profile I join a domain. It finds the domain
quickly, then asks to reboot.. I reboot sign on as the
admin of the domain.. Next step is to build the desktop
for the user I'm signing on as.. It just sits on the welcome
screen spinning.

I do not experience this problem on XP machines joining
this same domain. I've also tested it on a Windows 7 machine
and did not experience this problem.. I can't figure out why
it takes so long on Vista.. I actually never get to the point
of building the desktop..I don't really see any hard drive
activity either?

Anyone experience this?

 

[George]

further more I check DNS the comptuer is listed there. It's also listed
under
computers in Active Directory Users and computers..

 

[George]

More info to report.. After doing some google searching.

I have a Windows 2008 Domain.. In there I want to use GROUP POLICY
to map printer and drives..

After researching the issue on google. Some people were reporting that the
long logon times to a domain have to do with Group Policy..

My group policy is rather simple. It maps a couple of printers and maps a
couple
of drives to shares..

To test out the slow login. I removed ALL mapped drives and ALL printers
within
the group policy on the Windows 2008 server. I then went to the VISTA
workstation
and tried to sign on. It signed on as expected and created the desktop
quickly..

If I put in the mapped drives and printers in the group policy the VISTA
workstation
does not sign on at all it just sits there on the welcome screen..

Why is this?? I know on XP machines I had to install Group Policy client
side extensions and
XML Lite.. After that my drive mappings and printer mappings all worked
perfectly..

Do I need something for VISTA? I'll give it a shot and see what I come up
with.

 

[The poster formerly known as 'The Poster Formerly]

On 3/8/2010 10:56 AM, George wrote:

George,

When you get to the point when vista gets stuck on the welcome screen,
try hitting ctrl+alt+del and bring up the task manager and see what
happens - see what is taking up most of the cpu cycles, and report back.

 

[Peter Foldes]

You should be posting this to the windows.server.networking. Read the posts .Last
week a similar issue was posted and answered correctly. Basically the fault and the
resolution lies with the W2K8 and not with vista

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsot.public.windows.server.networking