Very Slow Roaming Profile on XP Machine

[AC]

I am running a Windows 2000 AD domain with three Windows XP workstations and
some Win2k servers. Last week the final Win2k workstation was upgraded to
XP and since then one of our users has been experiencing extremely slow
performance accessing domain resources (shares seem very slow and Outlook
crawls accessing our Exchange server). The user has no problems with
external (Internet) resources (surfing the web is prompt). I log on to the
machine with my own roaming profile and things seem fairly snappy and the
user logs on to the workstations without any problems, but on this one
machine her profile is ridiculously slow.

Does anybody have any idea what might be causing this? I'm at my wit's end.

 

[Guest]

Just a hunch but do you still have wins enabled? I have seen instances where
having wins enabled with the same servers and clients you are using causes
some issues.

 

[Richard G. Harper]

The first thing I'd check would be DNS settings under this user's profile -
be sure she's set to look at the domain DNS for name resolution.

 

[Guest]

I would:

1) check all network settings "ipconfig /all" from a cmd line will get you
started
2) delete the roaming profile from the slow computer have her login again
and see if that helps
3) check the event log

The first thing I'd check would be DNS settings under this user's profile -
be sure she's set to look at the domain DNS for name resolution.