Win XP Pro is too slow connecting to the Win 2000 Server

[Mike]

Hi,

We have a Windows 2000 Server connected to the Internet
through o a Router. We are not using the DHCP server on
the Windows 2000 server for a few different reasons.
Recently we purchased new workstations that have Win XP
Pro. The problem that we have is that the XP
Workstations tend to be slower than anticipated. After
you enter your password it take more than two minutes for
the Desktop to be displayed and the connection is pretty
slow. The Gateway IP on these workstation are the
router's IP address, so what I did was to enter the DNS
numbers in the XP manually, making the IP address of the
Server as the preferred DNS and the router's IP as the
Secondary DNS. After these adjustments the XPs
Workstations only took a few seconds to boot up but no
Internet. We did not have any of these problems on the
old Win 98 Workstations.
Does anyone have any solution except enabling the DHCP on
the server instead of the router?

Regards

 

[Rob Elder, MVP-Networking]

You should only have the DNS server hosting your AD namespace configured.
Delete the root zone on that server.

 

[Marc Reynolds [MSFT]]

Configure your router's DHCP service to give the clients the IP address of
the 2000 server for their DNS server.


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Thanks,
Marc Reynolds
Microsoft Technical Support

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