Extremely long login times

[hnadler]

I am experiencing issues with my Windows XP systems where only some of them are experiencing long login times (on the order of 40-80 minutes) in remote offices. All of my domain controllers and dns servers are in my corporate office, and the remote offices are linked back via vpn connections over cable or DSL internet.

I'm looking at my user profile folder as I am logging into the computer remotely, and I observed the ntuser.dat.LOG file being written and then rewritten over and over again. While this is happening, the ntuser.pol file is slowly increasing in size. As I am writing this, my login process has been running for about an hour, and the ntuser.pol file is up to 54k in size. I don't have roaming or mandatory profiles in place. I have also logged into this computer before, so it didn't need to build a brand new profile for me.

Does anyone have any insight as to what might be going on?

[Tripredacus]

Check the file size for the user profile you are trying to log in with. If it is over 2GB I can definately see this as being a problem. For troubleshooting purposes, you could create another account to log in with, that you will know to be new and clean, and see if there is any difference.