domain logon very slow

Hi ppl. This is my first message here. I've only recently received my copy of Vista Beta 2 CPP and i installed them on a seperate partition on my laptop. The problem is that i've joined my job's Domain (Server running Windows Server 2003) and when i log on to that domain, it takes TOO much time to take me in windows. Message "Logging in" lasts about 10 secs and then says "Preparing Desktop" for about 10mins!!!
I do not have this problem when logging in from windows XP from any PC. Any ideas ppl?? Thanx

The first time you log in as a user it will take awhile to create your local profile settings.
It shouldn't take that long on your next login.
"Thanoulas" wrote in message

Hi ppl. This is my first message here. I've only recently received my copy of Vista Beta 2 CPP and i installed them on a seperate partition on my laptop. The problem is that i've joined my job's Domain (Server running Windows Server 2003) and when i log on to that domain, it takes TOO much time to take me in windows. Message "Logging in" lasts about 10 secs and then says "Preparing Desktop" for about 10mins!!!
I do not have this problem when logging in from windows XP from any PC. Any ideas ppl?? Thanx

Well, could be a duplicated post, but there seems to be a problem with Firefox and the Newsgroups. Anyway, the problem is that i've logged on to the domain more that five times and it still needs a year to complete the log on. Could there be some misconfiguration in the server or Vista?
Thanx
"hdrdtd" wrote:

The first time you log in as a user it will take awhile to create your local profile settings.
It shouldn't take that long on your next login.
"Thanoulas" wrote in message Hi ppl. This is my first message here. I've only recently received my copy of Vista Beta 2 CPP and i installed them on a seperate partition on my laptop. The problem is that i've joined my job's Domain (Server running Windows Server 2003) and when i log on to that domain, it takes TOO much time to take me in windows. Message "Logging in" lasts about 10 secs and then says "Preparing Desktop" for about 10mins!!!
I do not have this problem when logging in from windows XP from any PC. Any ideas ppl?? Thanx

I had the same issue. I have a single Win2k3R2 server acting as my "everything" for my local domain (AD PDC, DNS, DHCP, etc.) Vista was a workstation on my network.
The problem was with the client (Vista box) TCP/IP configuration. I didn't have my local domain's DNS (again, my main home server) as the first in the DNS list on the client (it may have been missing completely, can't remember); my ISP's DNS entries had the priority instead (if not the only DNS). Even though I tried to set NetBIOS over TCP/IP it didn't seem to have an effect.
I put the local IP for my main box (the PDC/DNS) at the top of my DNS entries and login went from >10 minutes to <10 seconds. I suspect that if you put the IP of your local DNS (containing the records of your PDC - again, same machine in my case), you'll be in business too.
-- --// Ricky
"Thanoulas" wrote:

Well, could be a duplicated post, but there seems to be a problem with Firefox and the Newsgroups. Anyway, the problem is that i've logged on to the domain more that five times and it still needs a year to complete the log on. Could there be some misconfiguration in the server or Vista?
Thanx
"hdrdtd" wrote:
The first time you log in as a user it will take awhile to create your local profile settings.
It shouldn't take that long on your next login.
"Thanoulas" wrote in message Hi ppl. This is my first message here. I've only recently received my copy of Vista Beta 2 CPP and i installed them on a seperate partition on my laptop. The problem is that i've joined my job's Domain (Server running Windows Server 2003) and when i log on to that domain, it takes TOO much time to take me in windows. Message "Logging in" lasts about 10 secs and then says "Preparing Desktop" for about 10mins!!!
I do not have this problem when logging in from windows XP from any PC. Any ideas ppl?? Thanx

I had the same issue. I have a single Win2k3R2 server acting as my "everything" for my local domain (AD PDC, DNS, DHCP, etc.) Vista was a workstation on my network.
The problem was with the client (Vista box) TCP/IP configuration. I didn't have my local domain's DNS (again, my main home server) as the first in the DNS list on the client (it may have been missing completely, can't remember); my ISP's DNS entries had the priority instead (if not the only DNS). Even though I tried to set NetBIOS over TCP/IP it didn't seem to have an effect.
I put the local IP for my main box (the PDC/DNS) at the top of my DNS entries and login went from >10 minutes to <10 seconds. I suspect that if you put the IP of your local DNS (containing the records of your PDC - again, same machine in my case), you'll be in business too.
-- --// Ricky
"Thanoulas" wrote:

Well, could be a duplicated post, but there seems to be a problem with Firefox and the Newsgroups. Anyway, the problem is that i've logged on to the domain more that five times and it still needs a year to complete the log on. Could there be some misconfiguration in the server or Vista?
Thanx
"hdrdtd" wrote:
The first time you log in as a user it will take awhile to create your local profile settings.
It shouldn't take that long on your next login.
"Thanoulas" wrote in message Hi ppl. This is my first message here. I've only recently received my copy of Vista Beta 2 CPP and i installed them on a seperate partition on my laptop. The problem is that i've joined my job's Domain (Server running Windows Server 2003) and when i log on to that domain, it takes TOO much time to take me in windows. Message "Logging in" lasts about 10 secs and then says "Preparing Desktop" for about 10mins!!!
I do not have this problem when logging in from windows XP from any PC. Any ideas ppl?? Thanx

Thanx for the answer. It can be the problem, as my server also works as a DNS and DHCP server. And as far as i can remember the first DNS entry is the router's. I'm gonna change the settings and let you know of the results!
Thanx again!
"FaulstiR" wrote:

I had the same issue. I have a single Win2k3R2 server acting as my "everything" for my local domain (AD PDC, DNS, DHCP, etc.) Vista was a workstation on my network.
The problem was with the client (Vista box) TCP/IP configuration. I didn't have my local domain's DNS (again, my main home server) as the first in the DNS list on the client (it may have been missing completely, can't remember); my ISP's DNS entries had the priority instead (if not the only DNS). Even though I tried to set NetBIOS over TCP/IP it didn't seem to have an effect.
I put the local IP for my main box (the PDC/DNS) at the top of my DNS entries and login went from >10 minutes to <10 seconds. I suspect that if you put the IP of your local DNS (containing the records of your PDC - again, same machine in my case), you'll be in business too.
-- --// Ricky
"Thanoulas" wrote:
Well, could be a duplicated post, but there seems to be a problem with Firefox and the Newsgroups. Anyway, the problem is that i've logged on to the domain more that five times and it still needs a year to complete the log on. Could there be some misconfiguration in the server or Vista?
Thanx
"hdrdtd" wrote:
The first time you log in as a user it will take awhile to create your local profile settings.
It shouldn't take that long on your next login.
"Thanoulas" wrote in message Hi ppl. This is my first message here. I've only recently received my copy of Vista Beta 2 CPP and i installed them on a seperate partition on my laptop. The problem is that i've joined my job's Domain (Server running Windows Server 2003) and when i log on to that domain, it takes TOO much time to take me in windows. Message "Logging in" lasts about 10 secs and then says "Preparing Desktop" for about 10mins!!!
I do not have this problem when logging in from windows XP from any PC. Any ideas ppl?? Thanx