Re: no authority could be contacted for authentication

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John,

Is DNS set up correctly? Is this with another WIN2000 environment or with a
WINNT 4.0 environment? In the case of WINNT 4.0, is WINS set up correctly
( or LMHOSTS files on the WINNT 4.0 PDC and the WIN2000 DC that holds the
FSMO role of PDC Emulator )?

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"John" <John@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D926F3B1-8C35-42F9-BEC0-10F1222605F3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> I have set-up a Windows 2000 two way external trust which has been
> verified
> from both domains without any errors.
>
> When I try and add view an account on the other domain I recieve the
> following
> error message: "no authority could be contacted for authentication".
>
> No errors appear in the eventlog and the error occurs from both domains.
> Any ideas.
>
> Thank you
>
> John
>


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