XP logging into NT Domain

I am running windoes xp professional desktops with a NT
4.0 domain controller. When I log into the nt server xp
is looking to authenticate to a domain of 2000 or above.
After it doesn't find that it will look for the nt
domain. Since it is going through this process, it is
takng a few minutes just to login. My question is can
and how do you change the registry settings to rely on
wins instead of dns so it will authenticate to the nt
domain first. Any help will be appreciated.

Hi

How do you know that XP is looking for a W2K domain for authentication?
I am running a mixed OS NT4 domain and my XP Pro client authenticates just
like the NT4 workstations without any tweaking from me, and none from WINS -
I don't use it.
I would suggest that the problem lies elsewhere.

"UDI" <abattard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1848401c44a7d$bdba7f20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am running windoes xp professional desktops with a NT
> 4.0 domain controller. When I log into the nt server xp
> is looking to authenticate to a domain of 2000 or above.
> After it doesn't find that it will look for the nt
> domain. Since it is going through this process, it is
> takng a few minutes just to login. My question is can
> and how do you change the registry settings to rely on
> wins instead of dns so it will authenticate to the nt
> domain first. Any help will be appreciated.

I think you should probably be looking into a way to fix your DNS problem to
solve the slow logons. I don't believe your request ("rely on WINS instead
of DNS") is possible.

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"UDI" <abattard@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1848401c44a7d$bdba7f20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I am running windoes xp professional desktops with a NT
> 4.0 domain controller. When I log into the nt server xp
> is looking to authenticate to a domain of 2000 or above.
> After it doesn't find that it will look for the nt
> domain. Since it is going through this process, it is
> takng a few minutes just to login. My question is can
> and how do you change the registry settings to rely on
> wins instead of dns so it will authenticate to the nt
> domain first. Any help will be appreciated.