Re: Forest trust between 2000 forest and 2003 forest.

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From: ERIC (ERIC_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/06/05 

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:21:01 -0800

Thx Mr. Williams !

well its pretty simple i only got 2 domain.. but i will demote the 2000
domain when the 2003 will be up..So i'll try this tommorow to make external
trust into each domain i appriciated ! thx

"ptwilliams" wrote:

> You can only create forest trusts between fully functional 2003 forest
> root-domain controllers.
>
> If you have a 2000 forest, you will need to create separate external trusts
> for each domain in that forest to each domain in the 2003 forest.
>
> If you're having difficulty creating the trusts the most likely problem is
> name resolution. In this case, each domain needs to be able to resolve the
> other domain's SRV records. One way of achieving this is for a DNS server
> in one domain to host a secondary copy of the other domain's DNS zone.
>
> For example, you have two domains A and B. A should hold a (secondary) copy
> of Bs DNS domain, and B should hold a (secondary) copy of As DNS domain.
>
> --
>
> Paul Williams
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> http://www.msresource.net/
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