Inconsistent Login Scripts on XP Pro Clients

[Guest]

We have an Active-Directory domain that seems to be working fine. Most clients are W2k, just started adding XP Pro desktop clients. On the first two desktop XP clients (Dell OptiPlex GX270), about 40-50% of the times one logs in (either the user or an admin), the login script does not run -- also it seems the domain doesn't properly communicate with the client PC as "Unknown Account" appears in the User Profiles list. This behavior is ONLY on XP Pro (SP1a) clients. Once the client successfully logs in, everything is OK. Any ideas?

 

[Dave]

yes, an idea but not the full description of the fix off hand. we had
similar problems on some of our first xp pro clients. the fix has to do
with how xp speeded up the boot process by using cached credentials if the
network connection wasn't fast enough coming up to establish communications
with the dc. there is a setting that i believe can be implimented via the
group policy that forces xp to wait for the network connection instead of
using the cache. hopefully this will either make sense to you or tickle
someone else's memory who has the exact change handy.

We have an Active-Directory domain that seems to be working fine. Most

clients are W2k, just started adding XP Pro desktop clients. On the first
two desktop XP clients (Dell OptiPlex GX270), about 40-50% of the times one
logs in (either the user or an admin), the login script does not run -- also
it seems the domain doesn't properly communicate with the client PC as
"Unknown Account" appears in the User Profiles list. This behavior is ONLY
on XP Pro (SP1a) clients. Once the client successfully logs in, everything
is OK. Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

Dave

Thanks -- sounds like you're on the right track. I'll search TechNet for those topical ideas

Bob

 

[Dave]

try this:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305293&Product=winxp
thanks to an early rising IT guy.