Post upgrade blues

Following my upgrade to SBS 2000 at the weekend, I have hit my first real
problem. If I told you that it affects only 1 person, I bet you could guess
for yourself that it would be the man-at-the-top :-(

Anyway, the problem is this.
Mr Big has an XP Pro laptop. It worked fine on the old SBS 4.5 network.
All PCs on the network (all XP Pro as well) are working fine after the
upgrade.
Mr Big's laptop takes an AGE to login - pauses for a long time at the
'Applying users settings'

The DNS settings that are pushed to each client contain only the IP address
of the SBS server (i.e. NOT the ISPs DNS settings).
The DNS settings on the server (i.e. the TCP/IP settings behind the
properties of the LAN connection) are set to point to the SBS server as
well.
The DNS forwarders are setup to point to 2 ISP DNS servers.
Just for information, the server is using a single NIC, and connects to the
Internet via a router.

Can somebody please help before Mr Big comes looking for me !


Ian.

Wolfgang
Tue Jul 22 06:54:17 CDT 2003

Ian Sime wrote:

> Following my upgrade to SBS 2000 at the weekend, I have hit my first real
> problem. If I told you that it affects only 1 person, I bet you could guess
> for yourself that it would be the man-at-the-top :-(

Of course :-)

> Mr Big's laptop takes an AGE to login - pauses for a long time at the
> 'Applying users settings'

> Can somebody please help before Mr Big comes looking for me !

It might be connected to his roaming profiles setting. I once had a user
who had - by accident - included all of his IE cache and his "My
Documents" in the profiles, so whenever he logged on or off, several MB
of data was copied which was really annoying.

> Ian.

Regards

Wolfgang

Roger
Tue Jul 22 07:19:22 CDT 2003

Check to make sure the laptop does not have a External DNS IP on it's
network settings. I have also just added the local DNS Settings to the
workstation and that has corrected it's problem till I could find what
really was going on.

Roger Crawford
HTS


"Wolfgang Pawlinetz" <wolfgang.pawlinetz@space.at> wrote in message
news:3F1D25E9.96235302@space.at...
> Ian Sime wrote:
>
> > Following my upgrade to SBS 2000 at the weekend, I have hit my first
real
> > problem. If I told you that it affects only 1 person, I bet you could
guess
> > for yourself that it would be the man-at-the-top :-(
>
> Of course :-)
>
> > Mr Big's laptop takes an AGE to login - pauses for a long time at the
> > 'Applying users settings'
>
> > Can somebody please help before Mr Big comes looking for me !
>
> It might be connected to his roaming profiles setting. I once had a user
> who had - by accident - included all of his IE cache and his "My
> Documents" in the profiles, so whenever he logged on or off, several MB
> of data was copied which was really annoying.
>
> > Ian.
>
> Regards
>
> Wolfgang

Chad
Tue Jul 22 09:52:16 CDT 2003

Also check the nic on that laptop - make sure it is not set to Auto-Sense
connection speed . . .

--
Chad A Gross

Lerman's Law of Technology: Any technical problem can be overcome
given enough time and money. Corollary: You are never given enough
time or money.



Roger Crawford wrote:
> Check to make sure the laptop does not have a External DNS IP on it's
> network settings. I have also just added the local DNS Settings to the
> workstation and that has corrected it's problem till I could find what
> really was going on.
>
> Roger Crawford
> HTS
>
>
> "Wolfgang Pawlinetz" <wolfgang.pawlinetz@space.at> wrote in message
> news:3F1D25E9.96235302@space.at...
>> Ian Sime wrote:
>>
>>> Following my upgrade to SBS 2000 at the weekend, I have hit my
>>> first real problem. If I told you that it affects only 1 person, I
>>> bet you could guess for yourself that it would be the
>>> man-at-the-top :-(
>>
>> Of course :-)
>>
>>> Mr Big's laptop takes an AGE to login - pauses for a long time at
>>> the 'Applying users settings'
>>
>>> Can somebody please help before Mr Big comes looking for me !
>>
>> It might be connected to his roaming profiles setting. I once had a
>> user who had - by accident - included all of his IE cache and his "My
>> Documents" in the profiles, so whenever he logged on or off, several
>> MB of data was copied which was really annoying.
>>
>>> Ian.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Wolfgang