Guys, this is my setup. I have a WIn2000 Forest set up class.com.na and iit.com.na Firstly, it's an ethernet network, Star Topology. There are two 100MB switches. Now the problem is that all the computers in the Class domain logs on very very slowly. Where it says "Applying your personal Settings" It sits there for a definit 3-5 minutes. I cant see what the problem is. The pc's in the IIT domain logs in fine. It goes fast and then it's done... Something to wonder about. The Class domain was firstly in a 10Meg HUB. then we bought a new 100Meg switch and it's plugged into that.. i mean but it says the connection is 100 Megs. so i guess it cant be this... Even the administrator account takes this long to log on. Setup on the two server. IIT Server: Win2000 Server. over 300 Megs RAM Class Server: Win2000 Server. 128 Megs RAM Any idees would be appreciated. And thank you.

Not sure if this will help or not but... I had a very slow login problem on a single server/domain setup. This occured until I configured dns and put the server as the 1ST dns entry in each machine and made sure the reverse lookup zone was listed and the machines were listed in forward lookup. After fixing this it logged in like a champ. Mike

One thing i probably had to add is that the pc's in the class domain also gets its IP addresses from the IIT domains DHCP server. It's not a good idea to run two dhcp servers is it.? it's a forest setup. Maybe thats why it takes so long to log in, coz of getting the ip addresses from the other domain over the trust... but there must be a way to make it faster, i mean it's not like i am running 10 Megs over 10 Meg Network cards... Thnx...

Put a second nic in your server and configure it for a new private block, with no gateway and with the first card's ip as the dns. Give your workstations their own Dhcp ip's. They can still go anywhere through the server. If you set up the dns service with your server as primary, you can set the secondary to a another server uprange, forward lookup only. Feed your workstations from the second nic, and they see the world without playing in the traffic.