NT domain and 2000 domain - strange problem.

[jkonkal]

I have two domains- Domain A (NT domain), and Domain B (2000 AD
domain). The two domains have a trust relationship established
between the two, some of the servers in Domain A are also members of
the Domain B. One of the servers (not a domain controller) in Domain
A (which is not a member of Domain B), if it is taken offline and the
PDC of domain B is rebooted, the entire Domain B cannot access the
PDC. A user name and password dialog box appears when trying to
access a network shared folder. I am not sure what is happening here,
but if I put the other server back on the network and reboot the
Domain B PDC the network shares are accessible again. This is really
weird that a server from an NT domain can interfere with network
resource shares on a different domain. Any suggestions?

John

 

[jkonkal]

I must further clarify the problem, the Server in Domain A that seems
to be causing network discontinuity, if shut down while the network is
in operation, things seem to work okay. If all servers are shut down
then restarted (i.e. power failure, and if the troublesome server is
not started while the rest of the network starts up, the problem
occurs. If the server is started, then resources are all of a sudden
available to Domain B. What is on this server that is causing
this????