Drive Mapping

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Casey Thi

Hi all and thanks in advance for the help.

I have a windows 2000 Server and several Win2K
Professionals in a domain. I'm trying to share out a
drive in one of the Win2k Pro machine. When I try to
browse to it from another computer I'm getting the error
message of "trust relationship between this workstation
and the primary domain failed". In fact I get this same
error message when trying to browse to any of the other
computers in the domain except for two computer. Those
two computers actually let me browse to it. I can't tell
what the difference is between those two computers and the
rest.

Thanks,

Casey
 
It's usually a DNS problem (especially after XP...or 2003)

These machines are must more dependent on DNS for
finding the DCs.

Weird part is that the browser LISTINGS are dependent
on NetBIOS.
 
Casey said:
Thanks for your reply Herb but the wierd thing is that I
added the IP address and name of the computer sharing the
drive to the host file on the Win2k Server. Yet the
server still couldn't browse to it.
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Right, this is part of the reason that Microsoft switched
to DNS -- the records needed are Service Records (SRV)
and are stored to find DCs, GCs, etc.

You need DNS to work -- a host file is insufficient -- you
also need it to be DYNAMIC and the DCs to register
themselves.

1) Dynamic DNS server (set)
2) DCs (and other servers) set their OWN NIC\IP properties
for DNS server to this internal DNS
(probably includes the DNS server itself.)
3) Clients set their NIC\IP DS server property to only this
Dynamic DNS server (set).

Set == 1 Primary; or 1 or more AD-Integrated DNS servers.
 
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