DNS trust across domains

[gstar1703]

Hi
I have a Win2003 server (DNS/WINS/DHCP/AD) in one location & a Win2000 server (DNS/WINS/DHCP/AD) in another location. These are connected via a SonicWALL VPN and I have today attempted to create a domain trust. Firstly I added each others DNS servers as a secondary zone which seemed to work becuase DNS populated with the other domains machines. I then created a trust after about 30 mins but strangley I can only ping certain machines by the name rather than IP address & only in 1 direction. I could only achieve this after adding the opposing Wins server to each server, so it would appear that DNS is not working correctly. This should work regardless of the trust I created so I am failry confused why it doesnt.

Any ideas appreciated..
Cheers
G

 

[avilov]

If you made both servers as secondary and allowed zone transfers to them from primaries, then I would check if you have both domains listed in "DNS Suffix Search List"

 

[swabs]

try pinging by FQDN instead of Netbios name

 

[gstar1703]

Thanx for your replies...
Avilov - Can you tell me where this is done?
swabs - Thas what I was trying originally with no joy.

Cheers
G