Environment Overview
The Domain is a mixed environment with predominantly NT4
DC's, some Windows 2000 member servers and a Windows 2003
PDC. There are two Domains Australia (BMCL) and New
Caledonia (NEWCALEDONIA), which is a Windows 2000 Domain
running in mixed mode. There are ISA Firewalls installed
in both environments, we are utilising ISA Permanent
VPN's to provide connectivity between the Domains.
The NEWCALEDONIA Domain is using DNS for name resolution
and there is no WINS, the DNS zone is newcaledonia.local.
The BMCL Domain is using WINS and DNS for name
resolution, the DNS zone is bmcl.local. The PDC in each
Domain has a secondary copy of the alternative DNS zone.
A Domain Trust has been established between the BMCL and
NEWCALEDONIA Domains and largely appears to be
functioning correctly however a couple of issues have
been noted.
Issue
There are no Domain Browser updates occurring between the
two Domains. Having researched this issue I found some
information suggesting that cross Domain browser updates
happen through a directed Datagram and direct
communication is required between the Master Browsers
(PDC's) of the respective Domains either through WINS or
LMHosts entries.
As WINS is not an option I have implemented the necessary
entries in the LMHost files and purged and re-loaded the
name cache, however there has been no evidence on either
Domain of browser updates occurring.
Does anyone have any trouble shooting ideas to help
resolve this issue?
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