Hi All,
I have a home setup where I am using windows server 2003 EE. I was using roaming profiles however I have disabled them. I am trying to logon as a domain user on a client that has windows xp professional. The logon time is very slow. It takes almost 5 minutes for the user to logon. I am using the windows 2003 server as a Domain Controller and as a Active Directory server but I DO NOT have it as a DNS server or DHCP server. This is a home setup. I have a netgear as a personal firewall that gets the public ip from isp. I have all my clients pointing to the netgear. The netgear assigns ip addresses via DHCP. I went in to the WinXP client and I made the DNS point to the windows 2003 server ip but it still doesn't help. I don't see the purpose in that but I tried it anyway without any results. I have seen posts that are giving the resolution as moving DNS and DHCP to the server however I am a little confused and appreciate it if someone can please spell it out that why do I need a DNS server. This is a simple home setup. I am eventually going to have about 4 client pc's all running windows xp professional. My dns is through my ISP. However my netgear assigns itself as a DNS for all the clients and I guess than forwards all the requests to the ISP's DNS. I am not really familiar with DNS. Can someone please help and let me know what would be affected if I make the server a DNS server as well. Do I need this?
I am trying to setup folder redirection as well. Can that be done without using roaming profiles. I tried using it however it didn't work for the user. The user logs in to the domain however with just a default profile. Any suggestions on how to make this work.
Thanks for all your help.
I have a home setup where I am using windows server 2003 EE. I was using roaming profiles however I have disabled them. I am trying to logon as a domain user on a client that has windows xp professional. The logon time is very slow. It takes almost 5 minutes for the user to logon. I am using the windows 2003 server as a Domain Controller and as a Active Directory server but I DO NOT have it as a DNS server or DHCP server. This is a home setup. I have a netgear as a personal firewall that gets the public ip from isp. I have all my clients pointing to the netgear. The netgear assigns ip addresses via DHCP. I went in to the WinXP client and I made the DNS point to the windows 2003 server ip but it still doesn't help. I don't see the purpose in that but I tried it anyway without any results. I have seen posts that are giving the resolution as moving DNS and DHCP to the server however I am a little confused and appreciate it if someone can please spell it out that why do I need a DNS server. This is a simple home setup. I am eventually going to have about 4 client pc's all running windows xp professional. My dns is through my ISP. However my netgear assigns itself as a DNS for all the clients and I guess than forwards all the requests to the ISP's DNS. I am not really familiar with DNS. Can someone please help and let me know what would be affected if I make the server a DNS server as well. Do I need this?
I am trying to setup folder redirection as well. Can that be done without using roaming profiles. I tried using it however it didn't work for the user. The user logs in to the domain however with just a default profile. Any suggestions on how to make this work.
Thanks for all your help.