Domain security and poor performance

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Try asking this in one of the "networking" newsgroups - I bet you'll get all
kinds of suggestions there?

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"James Fabulous" <James.Fabulous@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Any help here would be incredibly useful...
>
> 1 Parent domain and 1 Child domain - Child is connected to parent via
> internet VPN with typically poor performance. When users travel from the
> office hosting the parent domain to the office hosting the child we
> typically move shared templates and such to the local machine to improve
> performance - however we've noticed that even with these changes users are
> still experiencing bad performance.
>
> User ( w/ account in parent domain) travels to child domain office and
> logs
> into his laptop using his domain credentials - most everything after login
> responds well but the users were complaining that opening the 'My
> Documents'
> folder was as slow as opening a share from a server back in the parent
> domain office.
>
> Could this be because the [drive]:\documents and settings\[domain
> username]
> folder and child contents have domain (user) credentials applied in folder
> and file security? - And opening any of the folders where security
> references a parent domain user account are sending those credentials back
> to the parent domain office to be validated?
>
> Any suggestions to work around this? The network isn't like to perform
> any
> better and dedicated bandwidth and leased lines are currently not an
> option.
> Had considered placing a parent domain controller in the child domain
> office, but this is only likely make things even worse for the parent
> domain.
>
> Thanks!
>
>