Print Browsing Extremely Slow (20 mins) When Workstation Joined to AD

[rshaner]

When we join workstation to our Active Directory versus
our Legacy Windows NT domain... When you wish to add a
printer, you select browse and it sits there and thinks
for up to 30 minutes. Then finally returns...

If we kept the computer in our older NT domains, the
browse list pops up nearly instantaneous. I have tried
this on many subnets, it seems to be global.

Looked at the sniffer trace --- looks like it wants to
talk to every server on the network... Almost as though
browsing isn't working. I verified file/print sharing
enabled on the Active Directory domain...

Our environment is Netware with Windows NT and 2000
domains.

HELP!!!
Russell Shaner
FirstEnergy
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Is DNS set up correctly?

In WIN2000 AD it is extremely important that DNS is correct and flawless.

All clients need to point to the internal DNS servers, not to the ISP. I
assume that you are using WIN2000 DNS? If using WIN2000 DNS consider using
Dynamic DNS ( aka DDNS or Active Directory Integrated DNS ) and make sure
that 'allow dynamic updates' is set to yes ( although I typically use 'only
secure' ). If not, then you need to make sure that the DNS in use supports
SRV records ( BIND 8.2.1 and better IIRC, maybe it is BIND 8.2.2 ).

HTH,

Cary

 

[Guest]

I think I may have found something... there is a security
setting that stops AD domain controllers from storing a
browse list of servers that share printers...

That would explain why the sniffer trace attempted to talk
to every server in the AD network...

We use QIP, not WIN2k DNS... Not sure this is a DNS
issue... the sniffer trace points to a browser issue...

Have you had an issue w/ slow browsing?

rcs

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

No, can not say that I have ever had an issue with slow browsing. What is
QIP?

Cary