Hello, We have Win2003 domain (not in NT4 compatibility mode) with 2 DCs, which are pretty weak machines: Win2003 PIII/512 MB. We set up child domain with 1 DC and 100 user accounts. We intend to do load testing: those child domain users will run scripts to connect to file-servers in the parent domain. I'm not concened about load on file-servers. However, I'm concerned about load on DCs in the parent domain: which will be doing pass-thru authentication during network logons (when the child domain users logon to file-servers in the parent domain). Is my understanding correct: will the parent domain DCs experience heavy load during network logons by users in the child domain? Thanks, Boris