Logon Script

[Eldingo]

Hello all:

It is taking way too long for the network drives to load on some of the
laptops in our office. They are running Windos XP SP2 O/S in AD 2003
environment. There is logon VB script that load the network drives, but not
everyone is experiencing the delay loading the drives. Does anyone know a
trick that would speed up the process of loading the drives?

Gracias.

 

[Mark L. Ferguson]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/831998
turn off Fast Logon Optimization. To do this, enable the following policy on
the Windows XP-based client computer:
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\ Always wait
for the network at computer startup and logon
When this policy is enabled, a Windows XP-based client computer behaves in
the same manner as a Windows 2000-based client computer at both system
startup and at user logon.

Note A similar problem can be resolved if you enable the following policy:
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Scripts\Run logon scripts
synchronously

 

[Eldingo]

Thanks Mark, I will make those chnages and see if it expedites the login
process.

 

[Anteaus]

I think you'd need to do a bit of diagnostics to find out where the slowness
is originating from. Best bet is DNS problems - try pinging the server by
name, and by IP, and see what sort of delay is involved in name-resolution.

You could also try mapping the same drives with reference to the server's IP
address, and see if that eliminates the delay. If it does, you have a DNS
issue.

You can also try the NET USE command in a batchfile, and see if that
performs better (or worse) than the VB script.