I just got through setting up a win2k server as a PDC at one of my clients. Everything seems to be in order as far as Active Directory is concerned, users can join the domain and log in and what not. However, there are two small problems. 1. When users login to the server using their domain accounts, it takes quite a long time to actually login. This is especially true the first time they log in (thereafter it takes roughly a minute to get to their desktops). These are brand new HP laptops (1.2 Ghz) on a 100 mb network (switched) with only about 6 users. I have no idea what is causing this. 2. The "logon script" that I defined for each user in the active directory doesn't seem to run. I placed a logon.bat file in the netlogon share and added "logon.bat" as the logon script. The "home directory" (map x: to \\server\share) I defined in the accounts doesn't seem to work either. The server is running Windows 2000 advanced server and the clients are WinXP Pro and some Win2k Pro. Anyone have any ideas on these?

What netlogin share did you put it in? I think the login script goes in the sysvol/domain directory.

I have the logon script in this directory : C:\WINNT\SYSVOL\sysvol\domain.com\scripts Where "domain.com" is the name of our domain. I will need to do a little more investigating, but now it looks like it is running on the Win2k clients, but not on the XP ones (or maybe it is running too fast for me to see?). At any rate, it doesn't look like the "net use x: \\server\share /y" commands that are in the script are being executed (or are successful). I will need to take some time to do a little more investigating when I get some time.

See, My main idea is to bring a powerpoint presentation as soon as the clients start there computers. So, where do i specify to get these actions done? I know that it should be specified in the login scripts but how to do that?

I'm pretty sure Win2k login scripts run in the background... no visible windows. This behavior is different with 9x clients, which displays the batch file.