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by Former member

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Ok, this a simple one....

I have 2 w2k servers, both are differnt domains in completely seperate forests. I need to run the microsoft active directory migration tool. To do this a trust be set.... I a DNS host file on each server's AD, but they still won't talk. I assume they need to be comunicating before I can create the trust....

Any thoughts.... What am I missing? Something in DNS or cofiguring the trust itself.

I get the following error "Can't locate RPC server"...

Thanks

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by dc1

Add entries in the LMHOST file for each domain. The Trust relationship requires the NetBIOS name to be recognized.

by Former member

This seems unessesary to me..... Why would I need to do this when DNS and WINS is allowing these two servers to talk. These are w2k machines...

Any other thoughts....

Thanks

by joseph moore

I know it sounds strange, but the LMHOSTS file is still a valid method for authentication, even in our Active Directory world.
I have used it on Win2K and XP machines to help out when they could not get authentication working.
Try it. Believe me on this.

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