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by mark_lt

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2 trusting domains, seperated by a level 3 routing switch.

All was well, now they can not sych the wins services.

Although they can both ping each other, and both are fully configured for "push" "pull" replication, niether wins can connect to the other.

Domain synch is ok and user groups from dom1 are still working in Dom2, also visversa.

Domain browsing is down due to the winsa, also Exchange 5.5 will not allow the trusted domain users to be the owner of a mailbox.

both have host and lmhost setup for the servers, both have the static IP set in wins for the domains.

What have I missed?

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by mpdcsup

WINS is kind of a finicky. Can you be specific about any changes that coincided with the problem? Is anything different now than when WINS was sync'ing. How long has WINS been running in these domains? About how many clients per domain? Have any new subnetworks been added? New remote links? Other network topology changes? New protocols? Removed protocols? Have the Push/Pull parameters or timeouts been changed? Are the system clocks synchronized? Have you tried rebuilding the WINS database? You might take a look at this KB article:

Q168712 - How to Manually Recreate a WINS Database

Ensure that your

by mark_lt

Thats the hard bit, nothing at all has changed (as far as I know), The error was only noticed when they tried to add permissions in Exchange for the Trusted Users, and that failed. It all now looks as though its wins related.

Wins is running fine in both Dom's, just not to each other, even though they can ping each other and share users rights.

by Member 35772270

Well at least you can't fire me if I'm wrong so here goes. Wins uses a broadcast protocol which is not routable, therefore it can not pass through your level 3 router. As for as exchange you can only create mailboxes for users in the same domain (not global users), however there may be 2 options available. You can create forwarding ID to send the mail to another server or install another MTA on the exchange server and configure it for the other domain.

Good luck.

by mark_lt

Too late, your sacked, hehe

Wins was deff the problem, I deleted all database files for wins, let it re populate and it all works.

Exchange also works for the trusted Domain again.

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