Slow logon on Windows 98 clients

[Guest]

Hi!

We have a Windows Server 2003 AD structure with a root domain and a child
domain. The root domain has two Server 2003 with AD installed and nothing
else. In the child domain there are five different schools in five different
geographical locations. They are connected with 2 mbit links. All five
locations have one Windows 2003 Server with AD and a site configured and a
Global Catalog for each site.

We have mainly Windows 98 clients on all locations but we are slowly moving
over to XP. Three of the five schools are having big problems with slow
logons on the 98 clients. All 98 clients are 98SE with all "Windows Updates"
installed. AD Client Extension is installed on them to. The servers have the
same configuration. DNS, WINS and DHCP is installed on each server and
serving each individual site. We cannot find any differenses in
configurations but still two of the schools dont have this problem.

Does anywone recognize this problem?

// Jarno

 

[Yor Suiris]

First thing with Win9x is check for and remove SPX, it was installed by
default.

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Have you looked into the SMB problem? Have not done too much with WIN2003
as of yet so not sure if that applies.

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24014
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com

 

[Guest]

Is this what you mean?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;230545

No i have not looked in to that but i will. Thanks.

// Jarno

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Yep!

--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24014
Microsoft Active Directory MVP

http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com

 

[Guest]

Hi!

The guide tells you how to enable SMB signing and show what needs to be done
in the registry. It tells what the default values of the two keys are but not
what i should use. I guess i should enable them both but im not sure. Any
ideas?

I want to save this registry setting in a .reg file and send to the school
which has problems but i dont remeber what i need to write in the .reg file.
I want one of the users to be able to doubleclick on the file and save the
settings in the registry. Can someone help me with this. I know i can export
the key in a Windows 98 computer but i dont have access to one right now.

// Jarno

 

[Guest]

I have been looking into DNS and i can see some differences in the Reverse
Lookup Zones of the schools. The Reverse Lookup Zone of the school where the
98 workstations are not slow in logon process, have a PTR record for each 98
workstation but the school with slow logon does not have a PTR record for
each 98 workstation.

The only place where i can remeber i have seen something about this is in
DHCP manager. When i look at the properties of the DHCP server there is a DNS
tab with some configuration possibilities. We have not change any settings
from default and they look exacly the same on all server. Still i have the
problem.

Anyone know why?

// Jarno