slow authentication time

I have Sharepoint Services and have setup anonymous access. If you go to the
site it is really fast. If you try and authenticate it is really slow.
10-15 seconds each request of anything. Any ideas? Also what would be the
best way to set this up for people to connect? Can I assign a DNS record
with whatever I want to name it? How would I go about that. Thanks for the
help. I am a beginner.

Engelbert
Tue Apr 11 00:03:45 CDT 2006

Always use SharePoint's own methods of authentication. The time taken to
authenticate is connected to the path to the nearest DC. There's nothing
much you can do about it in your SharePoint site.

Yes you naturally can set up a DNS record with whatever you want to name it.
Or you could ensure that the etc file in people's clients contains the same
cross-reference between the name you choose and the TCP-IP address. Or you
can use the site name and set up the DNS and/or etc file with the
cross-reference to that.

But the above is general normal stuff and has nothing to do with the fact
that this is a WSS installation.

Engelbert

"Jamie" <Jamie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have Sharepoint Services and have setup anonymous access. If you go to
>the
> site it is really fast. If you try and authenticate it is really slow.
> 10-15 seconds each request of anything. Any ideas? Also what would be
> the
> best way to set this up for people to connect? Can I assign a DNS record
> with whatever I want to name it? How would I go about that. Thanks for
> the
> help. I am a beginner.