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by surrealx

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I have an NT (member) Server, and a Windows 2000 Server (not DC). Both machines are set up to be part of the same domain. However both machines are logged on using their local Administrator account, instead of onto the domain. Both Administrator accounts have the same password. The NT box can access shares on the 2k box fine. However when the 2k server tries to access the NT server, it says that the machine is not accessible with "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed" error message. The 2k Server can see shares on the domain without any error. I have put the 2k Server in the Domain Admins group for the domain and also enabled that it be trusted for delegation. Can anybody tell me how I can get the 2k server to access shares on the NT Server without logging either of them onto the Domain.

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by maxwell edison

To display the trust's status, select the trusted or trusting domain and click the Edit button. At the resulting tabbed page you can click the Verify button to troubleshoot and, if necessary, update the trust relationship.

There is a great article on the Windows2000 Magazine Web page titled, "Can Win2K and NT 4.0 Coexist?" that discusses this issue as well as others involving Win2K and NT 4.0 on the same LAN.

Here's the link:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnw2kmag00/html/Coexist.asp

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Good luck,

Maxwell

by c.callow

I ran into this problem with Win2k Pro machines. All I had to do was rejoin the machines to that domain and everything works fine.

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