XP Pro Slow looking on network

[HeavyWeight]

I have a windows 2000 server and updating some clients to xp pro and when they first logon after waiting 2min 30 sec. looking at the network is fine files come up fast but about half way through the day it takes a 1min or longer to do the same task.Just woundering what can cause this??? This is only with xp all other machines are fine no slow down.

 

[linney]

Try your luck here.

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Slow Logon to Windows 2000 Domains
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[harmonyjones]

I have the same problem with XP PRO and files on a Win2K server. Very Slow. Heavyweight did you solve your problem?

 

[HeavyWeight]

thanks for the input . I will try these fixes and tell you if they worked .

 

[wconsulting]

I wrote this answer on another tech site and I'd like more feed back from users on this issue...


"I too had beaten my head against the wall with this XP slow logon issue. I tried all of the fixes I could find online....from the asynchronous loading of networking fixes (

http://www.tweakxp.com/article139785.aspx

) to all of the DNS forwarding tricks I could find (

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?fid=4017

). I was CONVINCED that it was a DNS issue, but I think most LAN IT techs get a little weak when it comes to DNS (I know I do). Anyway, I'd be curious to know what your server's fully qualified domain name is. Here is what I've found. server.companyname.com is what my server names were. Without DNS tweaking that I haven't successfully found/done, I finally got brave and ran dcpromo to "demote" my active directory server to a stand alone server. Once this was done I ran dcpromo again to recreate the active directory server only THIS TIME NAMING IT SERVER.COMPANYNAME.LOCAL The .local part is THE difference. I don't know of any other way of renaming a Windows 2000 active directory server name. Now keep in mind that this is a drastic change and all of your users accounts/passwords etc will be lost and have to be recreated. But all of my XP machines logon on in an instant now. If there is an easier way to "fix" this I'm all ears, but I haven't found a "fix" anywhere else online. Let me know if this helps."

Kevin

 

[cyberspace]

wconsulting,

I have been searching the forums trying to find a fix for a slow logon on a machine on an XP/Win2k domain.

The host in question was already set to domian.local and it's still very slow.

 

[linney]

Did you see this?

Please help - no one seems to know
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