Re: Windows 2000 cross forest trust setup

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Thanks for the help Richard. Instead of using WINS I went the DNS route
instead. I setup a secondary zone for the target domain on the souce domain's
DNS servers and vice versa. Once that was setup, the trust worked great. I
assume the trust creation process makes use of the AD service records in the
DNS zones and having them host a secondary copy of the domain they are trying
to trust fixed the name resolution issues.

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> WINS will probably be necessary - I have found that it usually clears up any
> cross-forest and cross-range name resolution problems.
>
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> "Arcom" <Arcom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Ive tried setting up a trust relationship between 2 Windows 2000 forests
> > to
> > no avail. I keep getting the "domain cannot be contacted" error message.
> > This
> > generally means name resolution problems but I added an entry for the
> > target
> > DC in DNS can can resolve the name. I do not use WINS and hope not to if
> > possible. Any idea's of where to go from here? Do I have to create a new
> > zone
> > for the target domain on my DNS servers?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
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