Can't view the computer list in remote domain

[Guest]

Dear ALL,

My company have 2 domains (a.com and b.com).
From a.com network, i can use \\computerA to open the shared files of a
computer in b.com domain.

But from b.com network, i use \\computerB to open the shared folders of a
computer in a.com domain, i get error "network path not found".

Also when i open "My network place" at a computer in b.com domain, there is
a icon of a.com. but when i click into it, i get error "a.com is not
accessible. The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available"

i have checked the DNS ans WINS server. There are records for all computers
in a.com domain.

Please help me to fix this problem

Thanks a lot

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

You need to read about the browsing service and how to troubleshoot it.
You will look for an old res kit tool called browstat.

Overall, if I recall, Microsoft never did actually support browsing, it
was just something that was there and sometimes did and sometimes didn't
work.


--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
Author of O'Reilly Active Directory Third Edition
www.joeware.net


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[Mike Shepperd]

Have you tried accessing the FQDN of each machine?

ex. \\computera.a.com\
\\computerb.b.com\

If your DNS is properly configured that should work, where the \\computera\
attempt fails. In a 2000 or newer environment, that's the better way to go
anyways since everything relies on it anyways.

If that doesn't work, you should work on getting it to. In a typical
scenario with two domains like this, I recommend setting up a secondary zone
for b.com in a.com's DNS server and vice versa. Setting up WINS to pass the
machine's NETBIOS names is an exercise I wouldn't even enter into unless it
was critical to the business.

If you need more detailed help than this, post back with the results of the
FQDN test.

--
Mike Shepperd
Sunfire Solutions LLC
Seattle, WA

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