Windows tatkig AGES to log on now...

[Snow-Munki]

Hi there,

continuing on from the same person who said that outlook takes AGES to load...

just got a call from her saying its taking AGES to log on now.. says its loading personal settings ( Windows 2000 btw ) logging onto Windows 2000 server i believe...

said she's waiting over 30 mins and still doing nothing, have restart and still the same...

any ideas.... pretty lost here

thanks in advance...

[Kezzer]

Boot in safe mode

[Butuz]

Does it happen on any other PC's? If so: Restart the server.

Butuz

[nichomach]

If it's just her machine, then her NIC maybe failing. Or possibly the netlogon service on server may be cacked up if the problem is more general...either that or they've maybe got a more general problem with their network hardware. They plugged anything else into the network recently? I've seen some similar symptoms where an old 10mbit device gets plugged into a 10/100 network and just fills it with random gibbering, since it can't agree a speed or duplex setting w/the switch.

[Snow-Munki]

thanks.. i 'think' its b/c the primary DNS ip address is typed in wrong...

very difficult for me to judge as i don't know anything at all about their network and only covering for the main guy who's on holiday...

i'll have a look around the rest of the network when i go there later..

[Moby-Dick]

roaming profile - docuemtns on desktop are the usual culprits

[Snow-Munki]

so best not to have docuemnts on desktop ?

strange....

[Moby-Dick]

well yeah as they are saved in the profiles folder , which if you are using roaming profiles can get overwritten without warning .

Put as many shortcuts as you like , but dont put live documents there unless the desktop is re-directed to another share.