Win XP Pro is too slow connecting to the Win 2000 Server

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Hi

We have a Windows 2000 Server connected to the Internet through o a Router. We are not using the DHCP server on the Windows 2000 server for a few different reasons. Recently we purchased new workstations that have Win XP Pro. The problem that we have is that the XP Workstations tend to be slower than anticipated. After you enter your password it take more than two minutes for the Desktop to be displayed and the connection is pretty slow. The Gateway IP on these workstation are the router’s IP address, so what I did was to enter the DNS numbers in the XP manually, making the IP address of the Server as the preferred DNS and the router’s IP as the Secondary DNS. After these adjustments the XPs Workstations only took a few seconds to boot up but no Internet. We did not have any of these problems on the old Win 98 Workstations.
Does anyone have any solution except enabling the DHCP on the server instead of the router

Regard

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

Configure your router's DHCP service to give the clients the IP address of
the 2000 server for their DNS server.

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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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Hi,

We have a Windows 2000 Server connected to the Internet through o a

Router. We are not using the DHCP server on the Windows 2000 server for a
few different reasons. Recently we purchased new workstations that have Win
XP Pro. The problem that we have is that the XP Workstations tend to be
slower than anticipated. After you enter your password it take more than
two minutes for the Desktop to be displayed and the connection is pretty
slow. The Gateway IP on these workstation are the router's IP address,
so what I did was to enter the DNS numbers in the XP manually, making the IP
address of the Server as the preferred DNS and the router's IP as the
Secondary DNS. After these adjustments the XPs Workstations only took a few
seconds to boot up but no Internet. We did not have any of these problems
on the old Win 98 Workstations.