Long delay waiting for workstation service

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1

Hi,

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask a question such as this,
but I’m running into a problem I can’t quite figure out. I’ve written a
replacement GINA for the Microsoft GINA, and it relies on the service
“Workstation” to start before it can do some things it needs to. The
problem is that I have a few systems which are part of a domain, and if
they are disconnected from the domain, the workstation service takes about
2 minutes to start. In the event log I can see that NetLogon fails to
start the first time because it can’t reach the DC, and userenv complains
about not being able to reach the DC. Eventually Workstation will start
though, and I’m able to log users in.

Is there anywhere to configure a timeout period where Workstation will
only try to contact the DC for so long, or does that even sound like the
problem? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

2

There is a registry parameter you can use to adjust this timeout called
‘ExpectedDialupDelay’. This article is pretty old, however, so I don’t
know if this technique has been superseded:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarnts
erv/html/msdn_nt4chat.asp

If this is XP, you also may be able to affect this behavior by modifying
the fast logon policy. See:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/policy/
policy/logon_optimization.asp

  • Nicholas Ryan

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Hi,

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask a question
such as this, but I’m running into a problem I can’t quite
figure out. I’ve written a replacement GINA for the
Microsoft GINA, and it relies on the service “Workstation” to
start before it can do some things it needs to. The problem
is that I have a few systems which are part of a domain, and
if they are disconnected from the domain, the workstation
service takes about 2 minutes to start. In the event log I
can see that NetLogon fails to start the first time because
it can’t reach the DC, and userenv complains about not being
able to reach the DC. Eventually Workstation will start
though, and I’m able to log users in.

Is there anywhere to configure a timeout period where
Workstation will only try to contact the DC for so long, or
does that even sound like the problem? Any help would be
very much appreciated. Thanks!

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