Were there any changes - I.E. did the FSMO roles (specifically the PDC-E role) move?
Also, are you CERTAIN that the WINS records are complete and accurate? Have you tried creating a LMHOSTS file to ensure that the naming is correct, with the #PRE and #DOM directives specifying the elements on each side of the trust? Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust Recreated the trust and still no good. No errors in the event logs to post, I get the following message when I try to choose a name or group from the domain The specified domain either does not exist or cannot be contacted. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kingslan Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 3:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust Justin, My experience with this is simple: Sometimes, trusts fail. And, then the existing elements no longer work. It sucks, but it's true. You can reset and verify, you can NETDOM it to death - it's physically there, but no trust is home. As long as your WINS entries, DNS and/or LMHOSTS files are as you had them before the trust failed, you can do this. 1) Break trust(s) 2) Re-establish the trust(s) If it doesn't work, you should then have some event entries in the System Event log to post back here for us to get a much keener idea of what the problem is. Rick -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Salandra, Justin A. Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Cannot Contact Domain over External Trust I have a trust that has been working and all of a sudden with zero errors it has stopped. I have a NT 4 and a 2000 Domain with an external trust setup so that I can grant permissions to groups from the 2000 domain to resources on the NT 4 domain. When I go to the 2000 domain from the NT 4 domain I am not able to see a listing of groups or users. It cannot find the domain. DNS, WINS and the trust are all working and validated. What could be the problem? Justin A. Salandra MCSE Windows 2000 & 2003 Network and Technology Services Manager Catholic Healthcare System 212.752.7300 - office 917.455.0110 - cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/ 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/
