Slow login times

[Gman]

Hi all,

Looking for a little help here with slow login times that i believe
are caused by the loading/application of group policy. I have a
variety of computers on the network mostly Dells with a handful of
white boxes that we still have hanging around. Now the Dells all have
gigabyte network cards and are better equiped processor wise then the
white boxes which have 1 gig processors with 256 megs of ram and 10/100
network cards. The Dells have no problems with login times, however
the white boxes take anywhere from 15-20 minutes to login. As you can
imagine this is a bit of a pain. Now is this just because they are
older machines with slower network cards or is this a problem with the
application of group policy. Is there anyway to check/verify this?
The server is a Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and we are
using roaming profiles in case you needed to know.

Thanks

Grant

 

[Danny Sanders]

My first question would be do the white boxes point to the same DNS server
as the Dells?

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

 

[Gman]

Yes the white boxes do point to the same DNS as the Dell machines.