Trust between two 2003 servers?

[Tony414]

Hello,
Be gentle. I might be a little confusing since I'm not a pro at this. I have two 2003 DC servers at two seperate locations. I will call them server1.work.com and server2.work.com. They are not in the same forest. I hope I'm saying that correctly. First off, is there a way to join server1's forest without losing data(programs that have been installed) on server2? If not, what's the best way of setting up a trust between the two?

I have tried to set up a trust, but I'm getting an error. When I select the radio button "Trust with a windows domain" then I'm putting in the FQDN I get "The new trust wizard cannot continue because the specified domain cannot be contacted" Does this have something to do with DNS? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Tony

 

[Tony414]

Meaning UNC is not working properly...

 

[Tony414]

Attached is the actual popup msg I get when trying to browse using name resolution.

 

[Tony414]

And this is on the same 2003 server that the shares are on.

 

[Tony414]

This has been fixed. I had to do a dcpromo and remove AD. Then I added it again and used a different name. Now it works. Just wanted to update...