AD Problem! Please Help!

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From: Brian (bhanley72_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/17/04 

Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:26:03 -0500

Hello,
Just yesterday, I (domain admin) and another domain admin are sporradically
getting errors in AD Users and Computers. Specifically when opening groups
and trying to see members of the groups. I get the following error:

"A global catalog cannot be contacted to retrieve the icons for the member
list because access was denied. Some icons may not be shown."

When I try to access the 'Member Of' tab, I get:

"The operation failed with error code -1073741428 (0xc000018c)"

Here is my domain setup:

corp.com
subdomain: contoso.corp.com

I've got two DCs (these are the only servers in this domain) in corp.com
I've got several DCs in contoso.corp.com

I see no errors whatsoever on my contoso.corp.com domain controllers.
I see a bunch of netlogon errors on both of my corp.com domain controllers:
NETLOGON Event ID 5721
"The session setup to the Windows NT or Windows 2000 Domain Controller
<unknown> for the domain CONTOSO failed because the domain controller does
not have an account for the computer CORP1DC. <--corp1dc is one of the dcs
in corp.com

I had found this morning that my trust between corp.us and contoso.corp.us
was broken. I was able to recreate the trust. However, the problem is still
happening.

Am I in serious trouble here? This may warrent a call to Microsoft.

Thanks! Brian

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