WIN 2000 domain trust

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I am trying to get tech support to setup a one-way trust
between 2 WIN 2000 server domain controllers in different
forests. I try to use NET passport to post an email to
Microsodt tech support, but they want a product ID # of
the form xxxx-xxx... One of my servers has product ID
xxxxx-OEM, and they don't accept it. The other is xxxx-
xxxx... Microsoft seems to be telling me to contact the
manufacturer, but my new PC does not come with a tech
support phone number. Microsoft says they have an option
for $99 to submit an email to tech support. Is this $99
per hour, per incident, what?

The problem is that I am trying to set up the one-way
trust between domains in seperate forests, and it doesn't
work. I am able to see both domains and their machines in
Explorer, they can ping each other by name, I have all the
DNS entries setup. However when I add the trust it says
it cannot verify it and says the RPC server is
unavailable. I have tried everything I can think of,
searched all the MS knowledge base, etc.

Unless I can find a way to make this work, my recourse may
be to re-install the OS and set them up as domains in the
same forest. I will lose the security my client is
looking for, but at least I will get something working.

I wish I could post screen images of what I am seeing. It
is hard for someone else to understand without seeing what
I am seeing.

PAT

I really need someone to tell me what to do and where to
go to get some help, PLEASE!
 
Trusts between two forests in W2K require netbios name resolution. If you are using
wins in each forest make sure the domain controllers are also wins clients and that
the wins servers in the two forests are replication partners with each other.
Otherwise consider trying a lmhosts file as shown in the link below. You will also
want dns to work in such a way that each domain controller also has a secondary dns
zone of the other domain in the external forest. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;180094
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312003
 
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