Windows 2000 Pro initial login after reboot delay/hang

[John Holcomb]

I'm using:

Windows 2000 Pro, SP4
1 network card, 1 IP
WinVNC 4.1 on both server and viewer
I'm tunnelling the zebedee from work to home, connecting from Windows XP

Here's the problem, or rather, the annoyance. I turn on my Win2k machine in
the morning, go to work, and at work I bring up the VNC Viewer and set it up
to connect to my home machine. From the time I hit OK, to the time that the
login window appears is 15 minutes (could be more like 20, but you get the
idea). I enter my password and all is well, and if I shutdown that
connection and open a new one to the same server, then the connection is
immediate, no delays. I tried telnetting to the server, and during the
initial 15 minutes, I get no response, nothing; but once I got that initial
login, then I can telnet and I get a RFB 003.008.

This initial hang before getting the login is not network related because I
get the same thing if I try to login locally on the server.

Any ideas as to why the initial login takes 15 minutes for server to
respond?

Thanks for an awesome product!
John