Hell With Domains and Admin Accounts

[bobber205]

I work for a part of campus that's usually been runnnig its own domain and all its computers were connected only with that domain. Since then we've hooked up with the main network, bad things have happened.

Instance 1: Take this new computer we got in last week. It's a refurb of a kind of old Pentium 4 512 ram. It runs pretty fast. handles office 2007 ok etc etc. Pretty pleased. The SECOND I put it on the main network's domain (all I did was go to computer properties and change it there) and rebooted, it was SUPER slow. The admin account that took only a hanful of seconds to log into took well over a minute. After it had finally finished logging in, the whole computer was much much slower. The same computer 5 minutes before was fine!

What could the people that run that network (not us btw) do to make things run so slow?
Also here's another problem.

We a computer is moved over to a domain, it's local admin account name is changed.
Occasionally when we log into that account, there's this issue with the desktop have the right side of the explorer window is on the desktop.
http://i146.photobucket.com/al...weirdactivedesktop.jpg

Yesterday I spent most of my day installing audio drivers on all our computers. I got most of them done and I finished the last few this morning. The 2nd computer I logged onto had the problem in the pic above. I didn't see it all day yesterday.
And now get this. That account has seemingly lost all admin privileges. I couldn't install the audio drivers or the flash extensions for firefox.

Any ideas? We're pretty mystified...

 

[Tarrant64]

The desktop issue you have shown in the picture is...wow. Never seen that.

Now, as far as the PC running slower when it's on the domain, are there any other machines that have the same experience when logging into the domain?

The reason I ask is because where I work, we have login scripts for users when they login to the domain. It will load printers, map drives, run group policies to ensure things are setup right, etc. You should check and make sure that if there is anything like that going on, find out what you need to change to make it right.

Note: You shouldn't have to change anything on the domain if none of the PC's are having that issue.

I tried to follow what you said, but maybe I missed a few things. Is the administrative user that you use to log in locally the same as the domain administrator? You may also want to make sure that Domain Users are also part of the Administrative group. This can be done by right-click My Computer -> Manage -> Local Users and Groups -> Groups.

I had something else I was going to put down but I forgot.

 

[stash]

The admin account that took only a hanful of seconds to log into took well over a minute

That's almost definitely a DNS issue.

Make sure the machine is using domain controllers for DNS servers and nothing else.

 

[bobber205]

We have no idea wth they're running when they're logging in on the domain.
I do know there's a printer setup script that sometimes takes awhile. I don't think the app is properly exiting as the computer is sometimes painfully slow even 20 minutes after having logged in.

I double and triple checked the issue about no admin privileges and is IT an admin.

Could a bad connection to the network in general be a problem?

 

[stash]

Could a bad connection to the network in general be a problem?

Have you checked the DNS config on the client yet?