VERY slow login

[dale.holmes]

I have users running XP Pro workstations on a Win2K
domain. They are intermittently experiencing extremely
slow logins - sometimes 10 minutes or longer.

Network Monitor traces show the systems doing the
following:

1. Request list of GC's from the DC. (response is
recevied quickly)
2. Request DNS resolution of GC host name. (response is
received quickly)
3. Ping IP address of GC. (response is received quickly)
4. PAUSE for 120 seconds - no network activity during
this time...
5. Ping IP address of GC again. (response is received
quickly, again)
6. PAUSE for 120 seconds again - no network activity
during this time, again...
7. Setup a sessions with DC/GC, connect to sysvol, read
through GP's, etc...

What the heck are these stations doing while they hang
for 120 seconds at a time?

Any guesses?

 

[gtmiami]

-----Original Message-----
I have users running XP Pro workstations on a Win2K
domain. They are intermittently experiencing extremely
slow logins - sometimes 10 minutes or longer.

I have the identical problem from the same setup. But
only with Dell and HP workstations. XP Pro (upgrade)from
microsoft seem to work properly.

Dell's tech support has been no help

 

[Guest]

All of my systems are Dell. Agreed about their tech
support...

Are you saying that you installed XP Pro from the MS
Upgrade CD and that solved/avoided the problem, but if
you install the OS that shipped from Dell you experience
the problem?

That might help alot, assuming I can build an image from
an MS CD.

 

[David Fisher [MSFT]]

Hello Dale.

Thank you for the detailed information.

It sounds like the XP clients may have the webclient service enabled.
Disable the webclient service on the client to see if this fixes the
problem. You can safely disable the WebClient service, as long as you do
not need to modify or write files on Web Distributed Authoring and
Versioning (WebDAV) servers.

Best Regards,
David Fisher
Enterprise Platform Support