XP slow login on '03 domain & linked GP question

Hi all

Although the subject tells it all really, just thought I'd add a bit of
detail (thus
the post to both groups)

Have migrated the users from a NT domain into my new 2003 domain and
they all seem fine...

(except a few problems when they change their password from the default
the first time they logon... and the icons and start menu not appearing,
etc. even
after setting it up and creating a config.pol file)

....on the win 98 clients but with the XP clients, it takes AGES for them to
log on.
It must be a good 5 mins or more before they can do anything but when they
can,
its good but not great.

The mapped drives appear i.e. H: for a user's Home drive but I couldn't get
the
group policy I *tried* to work. It managed to almost lock me out of the
domain
controller (guess thats what I get for editing the default domain policy)
but nothing
whatsoever changed on the client machines

Any ideas on these topics as I thought they may be linked somehow!?

Also, any good sites & resources for learning about Group Policy, GPO's
etc.?, as
I'll never get sent on any training for it and my own budget would never be
able to
afford it either.

Kind Regards all,
Nathan H.
Network / IT Administrator - Ysgol Bro Ddyfi (Edu)

Nathan-
Have you run rsop.msc on one of those XP clients to see which policies are
taking effect? I suspect that you are probably getting some policy after all
and that it is timing out for some reason. The RSOP report will tell you
what policies you are getting. You can also enable verbose "userenv" logging
to get a detailed trace of the logon process. Check out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=221833 for information on
enabling this logging. I also have implemented a logging ADM template here:
www.gpoguy.com/tools.htm that you can use to set this up via GPO itself.

Darren
http://www.gpoguy.com

"Nathan H" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi all
>
> Although the subject tells it all really, just thought I'd add a bit of
> detail (thus
> the post to both groups)
>
> Have migrated the users from a NT domain into my new 2003 domain and
> they all seem fine...
>
> (except a few problems when they change their password from the default
> the first time they logon... and the icons and start menu not appearing,
> etc. even
> after setting it up and creating a config.pol file)
>
> ...on the win 98 clients but with the XP clients, it takes AGES for them
to
> log on.
> It must be a good 5 mins or more before they can do anything but when they
> can,
> its good but not great.
>
> The mapped drives appear i.e. H: for a user's Home drive but I couldn't
get
> the
> group policy I *tried* to work. It managed to almost lock me out of the
> domain
> controller (guess thats what I get for editing the default domain policy)
> but nothing
> whatsoever changed on the client machines
>
> Any ideas on these topics as I thought they may be linked somehow!?
>
> Also, any good sites & resources for learning about Group Policy, GPO's
> etc.?, as
> I'll never get sent on any training for it and my own budget would never
be
> able to
> afford it either.
>
> Kind Regards all,
> Nathan H.
> Network / IT Administrator - Ysgol Bro Ddyfi (Edu)
>
>

Make sure the XP clients point to the local DNS server only. Unlike W9x
and NT (which use the Netbios <domainname 1C > special name), W2k/XP
clients use DNS to find the logon server in an AD domain.

"Darren Mar-Elia" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Nathan-
> Have you run rsop.msc on one of those XP clients to see which policies are
> taking effect? I suspect that you are probably getting some policy after
all
> and that it is timing out for some reason. The RSOP report will tell you
> what policies you are getting. You can also enable verbose "userenv"
logging
> to get a detailed trace of the logon process. Check out
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=221833 for information on
> enabling this logging. I also have implemented a logging ADM template
here:
> www.gpoguy.com/tools.htm that you can use to set this up via GPO itself.
>
> Darren
> http://www.gpoguy.com
>
> "Nathan H" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hi all
> >
> > Although the subject tells it all really, just thought I'd add a bit of
> > detail (thus
> > the post to both groups)
> >
> > Have migrated the users from a NT domain into my new 2003 domain and
> > they all seem fine...
> >
> > (except a few problems when they change their password from the default
> > the first time they logon... and the icons and start menu not appearing,
> > etc. even
> > after setting it up and creating a config.pol file)
> >
> > ...on the win 98 clients but with the XP clients, it takes AGES for them
> to
> > log on.
> > It must be a good 5 mins or more before they can do anything but when
they
> > can,
> > its good but not great.
> >
> > The mapped drives appear i.e. H: for a user's Home drive but I couldn't
> get
> > the
> > group policy I *tried* to work. It managed to almost lock me out of the
> > domain
> > controller (guess thats what I get for editing the default domain
policy)
> > but nothing
> > whatsoever changed on the client machines
> >
> > Any ideas on these topics as I thought they may be linked somehow!?
> >
> > Also, any good sites & resources for learning about Group Policy, GPO's
> > etc.?, as
> > I'll never get sent on any training for it and my own budget would never
> be
> > able to
> > afford it either.
> >
> > Kind Regards all,
> > Nathan H.
> > Network / IT Administrator - Ysgol Bro Ddyfi (Edu)
> >
> >
>
>