help urgent very slow server!!!!!

[vintagecar]

I'm on site at a customer location and the w2k3 server is horribley slow. It takes 35 minutes to login to the network, selecting properties it will take 3-5 minutes to display properties. I believe it is something to do with spanning the WAN to get security rights. When I was at the main office where the MAIN server is at and this server was on the network up there it was fast, I've moved it to a different city and different IP number 10.6.x.x instead of the 10.1.x.x(MAIN). and now everything is slow. This w2k3 server is a member server of a w2k domain. That's about all the info I know...help please.

 

[markdmac]

What is the connectivity between the sites?

If you have a really slow link then perhaps you should conisider making this server a DC.

Since it is currently just a member server, do a test. Log on LOCALLY to the box. If it comes up quickly then you know (or have evidence) that you are dealing with an authentication problem.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark

 

[davidwilson11]

Yes,

log on locally and see if it is any faster.

What you should do is........

set up the dcpromo and set up the server as a domain controller, obviously the second server in the domain. you should then set up your AD to replicate at a given time. This means that when you log on to that server from a pc it treats this server almost as if its the DC.any changes to the AD will also be replicatedto the DC at a given time thus giving you a centrally managed server.

 

[vintagecar]

logging on locally it is much quicker...we currently log onto it as administrator to the domain which spans the wan for authentication. I created another user with admin privliges and tried that user account on the server and it logged into the domain much quicker. When right clicking for properties on an item though it still took some time. I've never promoted a server before is there good instuctions on MS website for the promotion part as well as the replication, b/c I dont want to tie up a lot of bandwidth during the day. thanks for the suggestions and help. Can anyone explain the reason for the quicker login with the user I created?

 

[markdmac]

Did you create a local or domain ID?

I'm guessing you made a local ID and it would of course be faster since it then authenticates to the local SAM database on the server rather than going out to your DC over the WAN. When you right clicked on something, it obviously had permissions assigned for Domain IDs & Groups and therefore was going out on the WAN to look for confirmation on those IDs so it coud resolve the SIDs to actual user names.

To promote this server you will need to be logged on as the Domain Admin.

I hope you find this post helpful. Please let me know if it was.

Regards,

Mark