Windows 2000 Pro initial login after reboot delay/hang

[James Weatherall]

John,

Since this happens even when logging in to the system locally, it's clearly
a problem with the operating system installation and nothing to do with
networking or with VNC.

If I had to guess, I'd say that it's probably the case that the machine at
home was once connected to a Windows domain and still thinks it is, even
though that domain is no longer available.  The delay in the logon dialog
appearing in that case might be a couple of minutes, though, not 15 or more.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
Behalf Of John Holcomb
Sent: 06 May 2005 17:24
To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: Windows 2000 Pro initial login after reboot delay/hang


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
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