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Nathan,
You'll want to ensure that the clients on which you're observing the slow logons can ping the domain controllers; I have generally found that the slowness is caused by the client waiting for the ping attempt to timeout. Also, you'll want to take a look at your site topology in AD. It could be possible that if you don't have subnets assigned to sites that a client on the west coast could be attempting to authenticate against a DC on the east coast.
Cordially yours,
Jerry G. Young II MCSE (4.0/W2K) Atlanta EES Implementation Team Lead HHS Engineering Unisys 11493 Sunset Hills Rd.
Reston, VA 20190 Office: 703-579-2727 Cell: 703-625-1468 THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. From: Nathan@Hotmail Sent: Mon 4/24/2006 2:43 AM To: isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [isalist] OT: Domain Controllers at small remote sites Hi, Lately we have had some people moving around to remote sites which we have connected via VPN's. In our case they are PIX to PIX VPN's using a 512/128 ADSL connection. The problem we are having is very slow logons and network browsing for printers and shares etc.. I am pretty sure we have our GP setup right with the "detect slow settings" thing. I wanted to know what people are using at their remote sites. Currently we have no servers. It can be very expensive putting in a new server, or any PC really, with Win2K3 just to apply policies etc. and maybe allow for quicker software installations using GP. Although not a Linux person (it has become quite a bit easier to install and there is so much info out there) putting Samba onto a Linux box seems to give almost all the functionality of Win2K3 at a lesser cost. Yes you still have to purchase a machine to put it on but cutting out the MS lics would save some money. Money can be very hard to come by especially when you are talking about putting something worth $3000 total at a small site to make things a little bit quicker. Anyway, I just wanted to know what some people do at their remote sites. Thanks Nathan Simpson Australian Wool Handlers Forest Rd Lara VIC 3212 |
