Domain name conflict?

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Ricardo

Hello,

I have a company who for various reasons have implemented five seperate
domains. There are three causing me problems which we'll call

1) foo.bar.com, whose pre-2000 name is foo
2) foo.other.com, whose pre-2000 name is also foo
3) new.bar.com, whose pre-2000 name is new

Each of these is in a seperate forest. My first problem is that I need to
get trusts established between 3 and 1, also 3 and 2. In whichever order I
did them, when trying to establish the second trust I get the error "A trust
relationship with the domain you specified already exists". I am assuming
that the problem is the duplicate netbios name "foo". Is this error a
function of the domains being in mixed-mode? If this is so, will changing
to native mode have any impact on an additional trust with an NT4 domain?
Are there any other workarounds to this problem?

Also, I think they would benefit from consolidating into a single forest,
and probably a single domain tree bar.com. Are there any "neat" ways to do
this, or must a new forest with child domains be created from scratch and
the existing domains be trashed?

Many Thanks
 
Look at what you wrote. Where do you see the same name??
I'll give you a hint.....
"FOO"
still don't see it?
Hers another hint.....
"NetBIOS"
 
Thanks,

I realised the problem was likely to do with NetBIOS, as I hoped to make
clear in my original post. My question was whether there was a workaround.
Specifically whether trusts under native mode took any account of the
NetBIOS name of the domain. I understood (perhaps incorrectly) that a Win2K
environment could run perfectly without it.
 
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