I assume you are using WINS and the DCs of child and parent domains are registered there. Therefore the netbios names are resolving.
What happens when you try to ping the FQDN of the child domain server? Does that work? I think your issue is you want the child domain suffix to be appended automatically. My understanding is that it doesnt happen by default. However the reverse is true. If you are in a child domain and ping or attempt to resolve a name, it tries its own domain suffix before attempting to append the parent domain suffixes. This is true as long as you havent disabled the default behaviour, havent modified this through GPOs etc...
You can also specify a list of search suffixes to go through in a certain order if you wish.
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On 7/30/06, HBooGz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a Forrest with one forest root and one child domain.
The child domain is running windows 2000 SP4 and the HQ sites are running windows 2003 R2 standard.
I have the the child domain controller setup as an AD-integrated zone and i have the 2003 DNS servers setup to receive that zone as a secondary zone.
if i don't include the suffix search order on the nic cards' dns entry page, i just resolve the netbios names of the hosts at the remote site. for example.
hq = company.com
child domain = sales.company.com
when i initiate a ping from any host at HQ to a host in the child domain i only resolve the netbios name.
how can i resolve this ?
I've tried setting up dns name delegation in the past when i was running a full 2000 domain, but that name resolution never worked right and it wasn't timely.
thanks,
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