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by voldar

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Hi everybody,

My company has two locations and I created two different LAN's based on W2K server coresponding to each location. Now, we decided to join the two LAN's. On each location I have AD, DNS, WINS and DHCP.
LAN 1 is mycompany.som - TCP/IP 192.168.1.1/254
LAN 2 is location.mycompany.som - TCP/IP 192.168.2.1/254

I connected the two LAN's by creating a tunelling in internet, both LAN's connect one two eachother but only if I use TCP/IP.

The problem is: How can I set the trust relationship between the two domains - and also DNS, DNS records so that the computers from both LAN's see eachother by accessing the names and not the IP addresses. I am looking forward for any sugestions you may have.

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by bgorman

Assuming that these two trees are from two different forests you have a few steps you need to do...

1) You'll have to create secondary zones on your two dns servers for the opposite domain.
ie: mycompany.som needs a secondary for location.mycompany.som and location.mycompany.som needs a secondary for mycompany.som

that should help you take care of the name resolution provided you have mostly 2k clients otherwise you'll have to tell wins to forward unanswered requests to the dns server

2) after the dns zones are set up you should be able to create two one-way external trusts between the domains. Be careful not to assume that these trusts transitive like normal intra-forest trusts in 2k these trusts will only be between the two domains you created them between, not between any other child domains you have now or will create later

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