Hello, I'm running server 2003 in a vmware environment. I've got two servers, one primary running dhcp, dns, wins, rras, etc. It is acting as the master for a test domain i'll call it example.com. I want now to add in a child domain called for example purposes child.example.com on the second server. I run dcpromo on the box and it completes successfully, yet i'm getting slowness when the two machines are talking to each other, they are on the same subnet. I'm not sure if i'm dealing with a replication or dns issue or something else. For example, i create a user on the second server then from an xp client try to log on as that user, selecting the child.example.com as the logon to. My issue is it takes about three minutes or longer to find the user and log on. In another example i've created a global group on the child domain, and am wanting to add it to the domain local on the primary so that those users can access shared folders, this is not working at all. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks. Dave.