I have 2 domains in my W2K Forest and tree, in a single site:
 ds.company.com and newyork.ds.company.com  
For now I only have one DC per domain (until I get more hardware). Our
company's DNS is run on a Linux box, running BIND 8.2.1 so it supports
dynamic updates and SRV records.  I am not running DNS on any Windows 2000
servers or DCs. When I installed the forest root domain computer, (named:
mark.ds.company.com) it had all 5 FSMO masters plus it was made a Global
Catalog Server. When I added the child domain (silver.newyork.ds.mda.ca)
it took the three FSMO roles for the new domain, but it was NOT made a
Global Catalog server.  Now, when I try to access AD from each other's DC
I get errors, for example: if I try to add a user from ds.company.com to
the Administrators group in newyork.ds.mda.ca while logged into
silver.newyork.ds.mda.ca as the local administrator, I get a pop-up error
that says: "The following Active Directory error occurred: The Global
Catalog verification failed. The Global Catalog is not available or does
not support the operation. Some part of the directory is not available". 
In despearation I made "silver", the DC of the Child Domain, a Global
Catalog server as well, even though both domains are in the same site, but
with the same error messge. Is this a DNS problem ? Am I not able to
locate my Global Catalog through the Linux DNS servers ? How can I examine
the DNS tables in Linux from Windows 2000 to verify that all of my
services are listed there ? Any other troubleshooting tips anybody may
have ?

Thanks for any help

Bud Dawson
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