Re: Establishing External Trusts

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From: Tim Hines [MSFT] (timhines_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/06/04 

Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 10:16:52 -0500

Here is some info from a post I did last week. In addition to that info you
may want to try creating configuring your dns servers to forward to the DNS
server in the other domain or create secondaries of each domain in the
other.
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Being able to ping a DC is not a good test of DNS resolution. When clients
look for DCs they search for SRV records in DNS. The same concept applies
to WINS resolution being able to ping by host name doesn't guarantee that
name resolution is completely working. The client looks for a 0x1b record
in the winds database to determine which servers are GCs. Verify that ldap
SRV records are available for the DCs.

The following links discuss name resolution in AD

247811 How Domain Controllers Are Located in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=247811

Name resolution in AD
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/distsys/wsrvdsys.mspx 

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"Steve" <steve@celito.net> wrote in message
news:9F2CE456-DBB2-4ACF-BC87-1B21DA5259CE@microsoft.com...
> I am getting this error "the specified domain does not exist or could not
be contacted error code=54b trusts" trying to establish trusts.  These are
both Win2K Advanced Servers in the same lab on different subnets 192.168.2.x
and 192.168.20.x    I can ping from one server to the other.  I am trying to
use the admt to perform the migration.  Everything I read says go to AD and
use the wizard to add the trust...It sounds so simple what I am doing
wrong...I must be missing some configuration to keep me from being able to
see each domain

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