jcro

Thanks for your thoughts, but not using Netbios as a native protocol, just TCP/IP. In the WINS Tab on advanced TCP/IP settings the Default of "Use NetBIOS settings from the DHCP server. If static IP address is used ...." is set, are you suggesting altering this? The other thing I'm a little unsure of is what the DNS seeting should be. You really get the impression the PC is "looking" for something. Whatever, its real boring and giving out local admin passwords to users isn't ideal. Any more suggestions?

;( Run into the same problem myself the XP Pro machines on the network take AGES to login I mean like in excess of 15 mins. I like you have wireless -satellite based Interent access. If the XP machine is logged in as local administrator then loged - out; then logged back in as domain user then the login only takes a few seconds - as expected. If you login to the PC when its not connected to the network then - Hey presto - instant login with no delay. So the you tend to conclude this may be something to do with the internet access. But if anyone has any ideas or pointer for a solution I'd be most grateful. Network is static IP's, roaming profiles not used