Help configuring a trust relationship

I have a situation where we have connected 2 SonicWalls via VPN between my
office and a remote office. The vpn tunnel is active, but I cannot see (in
network places) or ping the remote domain by name....however I can ping the
servers in the remote domain by name but not the FQDN. Attempting to
establish a trust between the remote (Windows Server 2000; mixed mode) domain
and my (Windows Server 2003 ;Interim mode) fails with the "domain cannot be
contacted" message. Sounds like a DNS issue...but I can't seem to nail it
down. I have tried creating a static WINS entry....but no change. LMHosts
file????? Any ideas would be appreciated.

Try deleting your static wins entry and then having the wins servers on each
network be replication partners with each other and be sure the domain
controllers are also wins clients. For dns you can use conditional
forwarding on your Windows 2003 dns servers to forward requests to the
Windows 2000 domain controllers that are also Active Directory dns servers.
For Windows 2000, you can create secondary zone for the other Windows 2003
domain on the W2K domain controllers that are dns servers. That way each
domain will have dns name resolution for the other domain. --- Steve


"Garryd" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have a situation where we have connected 2 SonicWalls via VPN between my
> office and a remote office. The vpn tunnel is active, but I cannot see (in
> network places) or ping the remote domain by name....however I can ping
> the
> servers in the remote domain by name but not the FQDN. Attempting to
> establish a trust between the remote (Windows Server 2000; mixed mode)
> domain
> and my (Windows Server 2003 ;Interim mode) fails with the "domain cannot
> be
> contacted" message. Sounds like a DNS issue...but I can't seem to nail it
> down. I have tried creating a static WINS entry....but no change. LMHosts
> file????? Any ideas would be appreciated.