Slow logon

When logging onto a 2000 Server with 2000 Professional clients, there is an extremely slow logon.
Is it a DNS issue? It is not a real domain but a ".local" domain which is only present internally.

 

Almost certainly a slow logon is caused by DNS

For your Active Directory to be working you must have DNS configured on your LAN

The address of this DNS server should be the first (and arguably only as it will do forwarding) in the clients DNS server list (a second server on the internet could be added to allow you to browse the web even if the LAN DNS goes down)

If you reverse these (i.e look to LAN second) then login time will be slooooow as it is trying to find your domain by querying DNS all around the internet, when this fails it will look to any other defined servers before broadcasting as a last resort

Hope this is of help,

If still confused post the results of an IPCONFIG /all from one of the PCs

 

Thank you for the reply,

Here is the ip config from one of the Windows 2000 workstations. I apologise for my poor understanding of a server environment.

Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : neptune
Primary DNS Suffix . . . . . . . : ESCAPADE.local
Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Mixed
IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : ESCAPADE.local

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : ESCAPADE.local
Description . . . . . . . . . . . : DAVICOM 9102/A PCI Fast Ether
pter
Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-D0-09-27-E3-82
DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Autoconfiguration Enabled . . . . : Yes
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.18
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DHCP Server . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1
Lease Obtained. . . . . . . . . . : 24 January 2004 11:53:01
Lease Expires . . . . . . . . . . : 31 January 2004 11:53:01

 

Why are you using a DNS Suffix Search List entry? From Here

 

I am a beginner at this arrangement. How do I configure this?

 

Change
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : ESCAPADE.local
to
Connection-specific DNS Suffix:

 

Sorry,
but how is that done?

 

- Right click on the Network Neighborhood (or Computers near me or whatever) icon and left-click on properties

- Right click on your network connection icon and left click on properties

- Select TCP/IP and properties

- This next piece will vary according to your PC and network card but look around until you find a DNS tab and click on that

- Locate the DNS Suffix line and delete the contents then remove any check marks telling the PC to use the DNS Suffix