Joining a DOMAIN slows the PC right down!!! 3

[mike0680]

We have 10 PCs on a Windows 2000 Standard domain made up of 8 older Windows 2k pro workstations and 2 brand new XP pros.
All the 2k's are fine, but the XPs both take nearly 5 minutes to log on the network from switch on. I appreciate XP does take much longer logging on to a domain rather than locally but 2 P4 2.8's with 512Mb of 333MHz DDR taking 5 minutes.
Also the 2 XP's lose an HP deskjet attached to a 2k workstation intermittently.
All the latest updates have been downloaded to all PCs and the server.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. I'm fine with 2k but still getting used to XP's funny little ways.

 

[Lemon13]

give the xp pc´s static ip´s.

lost network resource

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en;297684

autodisconnect

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q138365

 

[bcastner]

faq779-4017

 

[gbaughma]

I had this EXACT same problem on a network with AD that I set up.

Make sure that the first DNS entry on the workstations is pointing to the PDC, so it looks there to authenticate first.

In my situation, workstations were taking up to 5 minutes to authenticate! Once I realized my mistake (Hey, I've made more than my share...) and pointed the DNS IP to the domain controller, logons were instant.



Just my $.02

"In order to start solving a problem, one must first identify it's owner." --Me
--Greg

 

[mike0680]

Problem resolved as soon as XPs given static IPs.

Tried pointing to PDC first but because the server's DNS directs to a Vpop server had to point to the Firewall. I appreciate not ideal but only way to get to Internet.

Anyway now logs on in 8 secs and doesn't lose printers.

Thank you ALL very very guys.

Bet regards

Mike