Good morning, I recently just installed a point to point connection to join my two networks together. I have two separate domains on the point to point. Each domain has two domain controllers. I can't seem to get the trust relationship to take. When I go to my domain controller I open the "new trust wizard" and when I add the other domain "domain2.local" I receive a message saying Cannot Continue- The New Trust Wizard cannot continue because the specified domain cannot be contacted. I am unsure what I'm doing wrong. Can anyone assist? Thank you, TommyTommy Rotunno

Hi Tommy,Check to make sure your DNS is configured properly. Create a zone for domain2.local on domain1's DNS and vice versa. Allow the zones to update each other so that each of the DNS zones are able to resolve each others domain and resources. Miguel Fra / Falcon ITS Miguel Fra www.falconits.com

Hi, For more information, please refer to the following article: DNS and NetBIOS Name Resolution to Create External, Realm and Forest Trusts http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee307976(WS.10).aspx Hope it helps.This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

Tommy, The link that Joson Zhou posted is appropriate here. 9/10 this is caused because the domain has no way to resolve the other namespace. So in your case the trust creation taking place in "domain1.local" has no way of finding the DCs in "domain2.local". The easiest way to correct this is to use conditional forwarders. The article talked about the benefits of using conditional forwarders so I will not replicate that, but here is a step by step to set them up: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754941.aspx Don't forget to give credit where credit is due, vote this as helpful if it helped you.