Connecting 2 domains over VPN

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Dave

Not sure if this is the right newsgroup or not to post this but here goes:

I have two domain controllers (company.com and company.hu) in two different
geographical locations linked by hardware (Watchguard) VPN.

Company.com is Win2K server based with Exchange 5.5
Company.hu is Win2k3 server based with Exchange 2k3

My goals:

Each company maintain their own email system - this seems to be working O.K.

File sharing:

Allow clients on the .hu domain to have access to files stored on the .com
server. Really, for those clients to be able to logon to the .hu server
using those credentials and be able to access certain folders on the .com
server. This seems like it should be fairly simple, but how do you set up
the Active directory structure on both servers to allow this? The ip scheme
is 10.1.1.X on the .com side and 172.16.1.X on the .hu side, if that
matters. Routing is done on the respective firewall endpoints.

Any good whitepapers out there to help a newbie with this? I'm planning a
flight over to Hungary in November to do the install and would like to get
it right.
 
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Andrei Ungureanu [MVP]

I only see a DNS issue here.
On the W2K3 server you need to configure Conditional Forwarding (forward all
DNS requests for company.com to company.com DNS). On the other end, because
you have W2K you can not make conditional forwarding, so yoll have to setup
a Secondary Zone for the company.com

I hope this is what you're looking for.
--
Regards,
Andrei Ungureanu
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D

Dave

Andrei Ungureanu said:
I only see a DNS issue here.
On the W2K3 server you need to configure Conditional Forwarding (forward all
DNS requests for company.com to company.com DNS). On the other end, because
you have W2K you can not make conditional forwarding, so yoll have to setup
a Secondary Zone for the company.com

I hope this is what you're looking for.
--
Regards,
Andrei Ungureanu
www.eventid.net
Test our new EventReader!
http://www.altairtech.ca/eventreader/default2.asp?ref=au
Click to expand...
Thanks Andrei for the quick response!

I have implemented your suggestions and they seemed to apply OK.

I am still a little confused on how this will enable the client login access
to the shares on the company.com server? Do I need to add the company.com
domain to Active Directory on the company.hu server? If I do, should I also
do likewise on the company.com server?
Sorry for being a little slow on all this, but you can learn sometines best
by asking.
Dave
 

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