NT 4.0 and W2K3

Hello,

Just created a new W2K3 PDC and works great on a new Domain A. We have our
old NT 4.0 PDC (domain B) still active, we are a small shop, and it has our
Exchange 5.5 on it plus other files.

Both servers are on the same subnet and have setup WINS to be on the W2K3
server and have the Primary DNS pointing to Domain A. Secondary DNS is the
original DNS before the W2K3, is that an issue? I thought that may cause
problems for Internet or our E-mail server on NT 4.0?

I setup a two way trust between the two but after a few minutes it causes
problems, slowness and users cannot connect to Exchange.

Not sure what I am missing on the Trust part to where they can communicate
to one another so there are not network communication problems? Also want to
be able to have the W2K3 admin account be able to backup all of the domain B
files including Exchange.

WAs able to access from the NT 4.0 User manager to the Domain A users and
add domain A admins to Domain B. Also setup User rights on certain things
like logon, backup files, etc.

Tried LMhosts, Wins, Trust for both NT 4.0 and W2K3 (one, two way,
transitive/non).

I must be missing or have something configured wrong once a trust is in
place to cause network traffic.

Suggestions are welcomed!

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 16:20:03 -0700, Torker
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Just created a new W2K3 PDC and works great on a new Domain A. We have our
>old NT 4.0 PDC (domain B) still active, we are a small shop, and it has our
>Exchange 5.5 on it plus other files.
>
>Both servers are on the same subnet and have setup WINS to be on the W2K3
>server and have the Primary DNS pointing to Domain A. Secondary DNS is the
>original DNS before the W2K3, is that an issue? I thought that may cause
>problems for Internet or our E-mail server on NT 4.0?

Provided the names resolve correctly, there's no issue on the NT side.
If you're running AD integrated you'll have a problem on the 2003
side.

>I setup a two way trust between the two but after a few minutes it causes
>problems, slowness and users cannot connect to Exchange.

I Googled "Problems slowness users cannot connect Exchange" but
there's nothing there to help, sorry. Maybe you could try, but use
the actual "problem" when you Google.

>Not sure what I am missing on the Trust part to where they can communicate
>to one another so there are not network communication problems? Also want to
>be able to have the W2K3 admin account be able to backup all of the domain B
>files including Exchange.

Trusts are one thing, but do the accounts have permission?

>WAs able to access from the NT 4.0 User manager to the Domain A users and
>add domain A admins to Domain B. Also setup User rights on certain things
>like logon, backup files, etc.

That's a start.

>Tried LMhosts, Wins, Trust for both NT 4.0 and W2K3 (one, two way,
>transitive/non).
>
>I must be missing or have something configured wrong once a trust is in
>place to cause network traffic.
>
>Suggestions are welcomed!

A trust merely means that one domain will trust account authentication
from another domain. It doesn't give any account any access rights.
That you have to do. For example, the share \\ServerA\Data in the
2003 domain would need permission granted for the NTDomain\UserA
account if User A is to access that share.

Jeff