Hey everybody, Lets get right down to it, here's my issue.... I have a server sitting here in the office that I wish to use for local file, print, and terminal services (for a hosted application to our employee base). I need to take that server and integrate it into our Windows domain that resides in a datacenter downtown. As for the networking side - I have used Windows Routing and Remote Access services to connect to our VPN appliance (m0n0wall) in the datacenter via PPTP. Our ISP is also our colo provider, so the actual route distance is very short, 3 hops (with 2 of the routers being my own). When I access files on one of the servers (by lets say.. \ \servername\directory), it is extremely fast - I get our full 10 Mbps between the remote server and the datacenter. When I try and do anything related to the active directory, however, it absolutly crawls. Logins can take 10+ minutes before a password is even returned as bad, adding groups and users to access lists on files on the server take a similar amount of time. I have made sure that DNS is configured correctly, IE pointing at the domain controller on both the VPN interface and the network interface itself. Has anybody ever experienced a problem like this before? Thanks -Equin

My guess is the monowall setup or limits of packets or packet size. Might even be the correct ports being open. See technet for correct ports. I know it was a test question but I forget everything. See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244474 also http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310456 I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you goober.

Ah ha! I figured it out :) My m0n0wall had the "allow fragmented packets" option disabled. I enabled this feature, and the AD was lightning fast. Thanks much! -Equin