Windows XP Small Business Server Question

[Guest]

Hi,

I'm running windows xp small business server - after creating an account,
when the user logs on to any machine - it takes a long time to login (we
aretalking around 4-6 min)
Can someone tell me why is it happening.

Thanks
Asad

 

[WhiteZin2000]

1) Does this happen to ALL users? Even Domain Admins?
2) After the first logon, are subsequent user logons faster?
3) Are you using roaming profiles?
4) Have you verified that your DNS infrastructure is operational?

Cheers!

 

[Guest]

1) It happens to all the user's
2) no its still slow
3) Yes we are using roming profiles.
4) Yes the DNS is working fine

Thanks

 

[Malke]

1) It happens to all the user's
2) no its still slow
3) Yes we are using roming profiles.
4) Yes the DNS is working fine

Thanks

When you say "DNS is fine", does that mean that the server looks to
itself for DNS with forwarders set up for Internet access and all
workstations only look to the server for DNS? Because it sure sounds
like your DNS isn't set up properly. Either that, or you have mapped to
network resources that may no longer exist and the system is timing
out.

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Hi,

I'm running windows xp small business server

There is no such operating system....

- after creating an account,
when the user logs on to any machine - it takes a long time to login (we
aretalking around 4-6 min)
Can someone tell me why is it happening.

Without your having provided *any* information about how your network,
your server, or your workstations are configured, it's impossible to
say. No one can help if you don't provide at least a modicum of
information.

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[NobodyMan]

Hi,

I'm running windows xp small business server - after creating an account,
when the user logs on to any machine - it takes a long time to login (we
aretalking around 4-6 min)
Can someone tell me why is it happening.

Thanks
Asad

You are in the wrong place. There is no Windows XP Small Business
Server. There IS, however, a Windows Small Business Server package (I
think it's version 2003, but not sure) and it has it's own newsgroup.
Better if you ask there.

 

[WhiteZin2000]

Assuming the roaming profiles are working (and the server share where the
roaming profiles are located has appropriate read/write permissions) it does
sound like some type of DNS issue. Because it happens during EVERY logon
(and not just the first logon) it points more toward a DNS or
server-resource issue and not a profile-specific issue.

If this is a DNS issue, if you were to logon with an account that does NOT
use roaming profiles, the delay would still be evident; that could be a
simple test. If the 'administrator' logons on to the server itself, is the
delay evident? Does the Event Viewer on the server contain any relevant
issues which may indicate the problem? I assume the clients and server are
on the same subnet without any routers/firewalls between them. If there have
been any type of security restrictions (firewall, ACL, etc) between the
client and server - check these as well as I've seen this behavior when
Access Control Lists on routers are too restrictive and block some of the
required ports clients require for roaming profiles to operate.

When the delay occurs, at what point during logon does the delay occur; 1)
when you first type in the username/password and click Ok but before you see
any other dialog box, or 2) during 'loading system settings', or 3) when the
systems is 'applying security policy' (at least, I think that's the
sequence).