Hi all -

Here's a problem I haven't seen addressed: I just installed Win2000
server in my office. Installatiion went normally. I set up the server's

nic dns setting to point to it's own ip (192.168.1.1), verified the dns

settings' forward and reverse dns entries. In almost all respects, the
server seems happy.


However, when I log in to the server after a restart, it takes a REALLY

long time to get the desktop. for almost 3 minutes I get a blank screen

with only the cursor, and the hard drive light is going like crazy.


So the question is, what's going on? I support 4 clients' Win2000
server systems, and none of them exhibit this behaviour.


Any would be appriciated!

JeffW wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> Here's a problem I haven't seen addressed: I just installed Win2000
> server in my office. Installatiion went normally. I set up the
> server's
>
> nic dns setting to point to it's own ip (192.168.1.1), verified the
> dns
>
> settings' forward and reverse dns entries. In almost all respects, the
> server seems happy.
>
>
> However, when I log in to the server after a restart, it takes a
> REALLY
>
> long time to get the desktop. for almost 3 minutes I get a blank
> screen
>
> with only the cursor, and the hard drive light is going like crazy.
>
>
> So the question is, what's going on? I support 4 clients' Win2000
> server systems, and none of them exhibit this behaviour.
>
>
> Any would be appriciated!

Any errors in the event log during startup?

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none in the system log, but three in the app log: Event 2064: All the
remote DS servers in use are not responding. All three are related to
MS Exchange.


Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP] wrote:
> JeffW wrote:
> > Hi all -
> >
> > Here's a problem I haven't seen addressed: I just installed Win2000
> > server in my office. Installatiion went normally. I set up the
> > server's
> >
> > nic dns setting to point to it's own ip (192.168.1.1), verified the
> > dns
> >
> > settings' forward and reverse dns entries. In almost all respects, the
> > server seems happy.
> >
> >
> > However, when I log in to the server after a restart, it takes a
> > REALLY
> >
> > long time to get the desktop. for almost 3 minutes I get a blank
> > screen
> >
> > with only the cursor, and the hard drive light is going like crazy.
> >
> >
> > So the question is, what's going on? I support 4 clients' Win2000
> > server systems, and none of them exhibit this behaviour.
> >
> >
> > Any would be appriciated!
>
> Any errors in the event log during startup?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
> Hope This s
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JeffW wrote:
> Hi all -
>
> Here's a problem I haven't seen addressed: I just installed Win2000
> server in my office. Installatiion went normally. I set up the
> server's
>
> nic dns setting to point to it's own ip (192.168.1.1), verified the
> dns
>
> settings' forward and reverse dns entries. In almost all respects, the
> server seems happy.
>
>
> However, when I log in to the server after a restart, it takes a
> REALLY
>
> long time to get the desktop. for almost 3 minutes I get a blank
> screen
>
> with only the cursor, and the hard drive light is going like crazy.
>
>
> So the question is, what's going on? I support 4 clients' Win2000
> server systems, and none of them exhibit this behaviour.
>
>
> Any would be appriciated!

Post the ipconfig /all from the server, the name of the AD Domain, and the
name of your forward lookup zone in DNS.

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In news:1162618586.431430.284260@h48g2000cwc.googlegr oups.com,
JeffW <snowskier1la@yahoo.com> stated, which I commented on below:
> none in the system log, but three in the app log: Event 2064: All the
> remote DS servers in use are not responding. All three are related to
> MS Exchange.

This sounds like it may be caused by a major DNS misconfiguration, or a
major AD misconfiguration, or both. If you can supply the info Kevin
requested, that will give us a great headstart in diagnosing this.

Thanks for any info you can provide to better you out.

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