Eldingo

Hello all:

It is taking way too long for the network drives to load on some of the
laptops in our office. They are running Windos XP SP2 O/S in AD 2003
environment. There is logon VB script that load the network drives, but not
everyone is experiencing the delay loading the drives. Does anyone know a
trick that would speed up the process of loading the drives?

Gracias.

Mark L. Ferguson

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/831998
turn off Fast Logon Optimization. To do this, enable the following policy on
the Windows XP-based client computer:
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\ Always wait
for the network at computer startup and logon
When this policy is enabled, a Windows XP-based client computer behaves in
the same manner as a Windows 2000-based client computer at both system
startup and at user logon.

Note A similar problem can be resolved if you enable the following policy:
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Scripts\Run logon scripts
synchronously
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"Eldingo" wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> It is taking way too long for the network drives to load on some of the
> laptops in our office. They are running Windos XP SP2 O/S in AD 2003
> environment. There is logon VB script that load the network drives, but not
> everyone is experiencing the delay loading the drives. Does anyone know a
> trick that would speed up the process of loading the drives?
>
> Gracias.
>
>

Eldingo

Thanks Mark, I will make those chnages and see if it expedites the login
process.

"Mark L. Ferguson" <MarkLFerguson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news9B23C27-4732-4ED4-8E7B-E87CD23183D4@microsoft.com...
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/831998
> turn off Fast Logon Optimization. To do this, enable the following policy
> on
> the Windows XP-based client computer:
> Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Logon\ Always wait
> for the network at computer startup and logon
> When this policy is enabled, a Windows XP-based client computer behaves in
> the same manner as a Windows 2000-based client computer at both system
> startup and at user logon.
>
> Note A similar problem can be resolved if you enable the following policy:
> User Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Scripts\Run logon
> scripts
> synchronously
> --
> helpful? click "Yes" button. Voting helps the web interface.
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...lp_and_support
> Mark L. Ferguson
>
>
>
> "Eldingo" wrote:
>
>> Hello all:
>>
>> It is taking way too long for the network drives to load on some of the
>> laptops in our office. They are running Windos XP SP2 O/S in AD 2003
>> environment. There is logon VB script that load the network drives, but
>> not
>> everyone is experiencing the delay loading the drives. Does anyone know a
>> trick that would speed up the process of loading the drives?
>>
>> Gracias.
>>
>>

Anteaus

I think you'd need to do a bit of diagnostics to find out where the slowness
is originating from. Best bet is DNS problems - try pinging the server by
name, and by IP, and see what sort of delay is involved in name-resolution.

You could also try mapping the same drives with reference to the server's IP
address, and see if that eliminates the delay. If it does, you have a DNS
issue.

You can also try the NET USE command in a batchfile, and see if that
performs better (or worse) than the VB script.

"Eldingo" wrote:

> It is taking way too long for the network drives to load on some of the
> laptops in our office.