Domain name conflict?

[Ricardo]

Hello,

I have a company who for various reasons have implemented five seperate
domains. There are three causing me problems which we'll call

1) foo.bar.com, whose pre-2000 name is foo
2) foo.other.com, whose pre-2000 name is also foo
3) new.bar.com, whose pre-2000 name is new

Each of these is in a seperate forest. My first problem is that I need to
get trusts established between 3 and 1, also 3 and 2. In whichever order I
did them, when trying to establish the second trust I get the error "A trust
relationship with the domain you specified already exists". I am assuming
that the problem is the duplicate netbios name "foo". Is this error a
function of the domains being in mixed-mode? If this is so, will changing
to native mode have any impact on an additional trust with an NT4 domain?
Are there any other workarounds to this problem?

Also, I think they would benefit from consolidating into a single forest,
and probably a single domain tree bar.com. Are there any "neat" ways to do
this, or must a new forest with child domains be created from scratch and
the existing domains be trashed?

Many Thanks

 

[Ricardo]

anybody?

 

[John]

Look at what you wrote. Where do you see the same name??
I'll give you a hint.....
"FOO"
still don't see it?
Hers another hint.....
"NetBIOS"

 

[Ricardo]

Thanks,

I realised the problem was likely to do with NetBIOS, as I hoped to make
clear in my original post. My question was whether there was a workaround.
Specifically whether trusts under native mode took any account of the
NetBIOS name of the domain. I understood (perhaps incorrectly) that a Win2K
environment could run perfectly without it.