I recently set up a Windows 2000 Server DC and 4 Win 2000 workstations (all new) running them through a linksys 16 port hub and a Dlink VPN firewall and everything went well setting up the DC, workstations, and firewall except for the workstations logon times which are very inconsistant. Sometimes it may take up to 20 minutes for a station to logon and sometimes it may only take about 30 seconds. I checked the logs and it kept referring to some of the errors found in MS article 316239 about "SVR records cannot be registered on a DNS server". I followed the resolution about the forward lookup zone and when I attempt to make the change to allow dynamic updates, I get a DNS error that says "the data on the primary zone failed to set...access was denied. I've tried setting all the workstations (8 total) and server in the domain to static ip's on both the server and the VPN. Once the stations are logged on, they access the network and internet fine and fast, it just takes them forever to logon. I cannot find any MS KB articles about the primary zone error message. I've flushed DNS, ran ipconfig release / renew on all computers, etc, tried using the VPN as the DNS server and nothing seems to help. Ideas??? Suggestions???