AD and slow logins after file server crash

[Harrison Midkiff]

Hello:

Last week my primary corporate file server crashed. It took me most of the
afternoon to get the server back online. During this time just about every
computer in the organization came to a crawl! The reason for this was all
users have mapped home folders and drives on this server. Many people tried
to reboot there computers but the logon took 10 minutes or more. The
lockups and slow logins were so bad some departments decided to close. Very
bad.... I know loosing this server would have tremendous effects, but I
would not have thought the workstations would have been effected as much as
they were.

Does anyone have any idea how to avoid something like this from happening
again? I am curious if there is a setting in AD I can make to help with
this?

Harrison Midkiff

 

[Danny Sanders]

Almost sounds like this server had DNS installed and your AD clients were
using this server for DNS. Are they?

hth
DDS

 

[Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]]

Where are your DNS and GC servers? Do you have just one? If you only have
one DC then you definitely only have one GC and probably only 1 DNS server.



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[Harrison Midkiff]

Thanks for replying....

I have segmented out my servers. I have 2 servers which are running as
DC's. Both servers have DNS installed and configured and are also GC's.
The server which went down was just a file server. No other services are
installed on it. I re-checked my DHCP settings due to this is how my
clients get there DNS settings and DHCP is set to give out the IP addresses
of the 2 DC's I mentioned.

All users have a home folder which is set via there account. In addition a
logon script runs which maps 2 network drives. My guess is something is
being referenced in there home folders. I looked in mine and I noticed I
have a USER.DAT (12-10-2004), NTUSER.DAT (1-22-2001) and ntuser.ini
(12-11-2000). I am not sure why these are there but due to there date I
don't think these files are the cause , but could it be something else?