I don't think you have to do anything with your _msdcs zone. You have to have WINS name resolution in-order to configure the trust. What is your WINS configuration? Can you ping both Domain DCs using NetBIOS and FQDN?
HTH Santhosh Santhosh Sivarajan MCSE(W2K3/W2K/NT4),MCSA(W2K3/W2K/MSG),CCNA,Network+ Houston, TX On 5/31/05, Rimmerman, Russ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We upgraded our Win2k AD domain to Win2k3 a few months ago. Now I'm > attempting to set up a two-way trust with an outside Win2k3 domain, and > I found out that _msdcs.company.com in the Win2k3 domain is at the same > level as the company.com zone. So I found out this means that they > build this as a Win2k3 domain rather than upgrading from Win2k. > > I found http://support.microsoft.com/?id=817470 on how to reconfigure an > _msdcs subdomain to a forest-wide DNS application directory partition > when you upgrade from Win2k to Win2k3, but we haven't done that (didn't > know about it until just now). > > Question is - I want to set up a two-way trust with this win2k3 domain, > but when I set them up as a secondary zone in our empty root domain, we > didn't get the _msdcs data since it's just a grey reference folder > rather than actual data. > > How do I get the two-way trust working? Do I have to set up two > secondary zones in my empty root domain, one for company.com and one for > _msdcs.company.com? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This e-mail is confidential, may contain proprietary information > of the Cooper Cameron Corporation and its operating Divisions > and may be confidential or privileged. > > This e-mail should be read, copied, disseminated and/or used only > by the addressee. If you have received this message in error please > delete it, together with any attachments, from your system. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
