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by shanghai sam

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I have a two way trust between 2 NT 4 domains. The trusts were created successfully on both sides. When I use User Manager for Domains on an NT 4 workstation I can view the users in the other domain. However,when I use User Manager for Domains on a W2K professional PC I get the error message "could not find domain controller for this domain". I can ping by netbios name on both sides so I do not think this is a name resolution problem. Everything seems to work fine on NT 4 machines. It is just when trying to do the same functions on a W2K machine that is not working.

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by joseph moore

I had all kinds of problems working on a Win2KPro machine using User Manager for Domains until I added 2 lines into the Win2KPro LMHOSTS file, pointing to my NT domains PDC. Once I defined the PDC and the NT Domain, my problems went away.

So, putin the following 2 lines into the LMHOSTS file:
10.1.1.1 MYPDC #PRE #DOM:MYDOMAIN
10.1.1.1 "MYDOMAIN \0x1b" #PRE

Just put in the IP address and machine name of your PDC in, and the name of your NT domain in the domain name section.

Here is a Technet article on the LMHOSTS file and what it's all about (Q180094):
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q180094
(please remove any spaces)

hope this helps

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