richardwhit
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Mapping drives across domains/forests
Hi,
I am testing a setup I need to use at one of my sites.
I have two forests, one with an outgoing trust to the other. Users from the trusted forest need to be able to login to PC's in the trusting forest and be presented with their normal mapped network drives etc.
In AD Users and Computers I had the user account configured to map the home drive to \\servername\home\username .
Of course this didn't work when a user logged into the other forest because \\servername is not a FQDN and so could not be resolved. I got round this by entering \\servername.domain.com\ho me\usernam e in the home drive properties and this works OK since the full DNS name of the server is now present.
Is this the "right" way of doing it and normal practice for this kind of scenario, or is there a better way of sorting this out, I've thought of perhaps adding an extra DNS suffix in the client DNS properties but this can't be assigned by DHCP afaik, so how do people work round this?
I am testing a setup I need to use at one of my sites.
I have two forests, one with an outgoing trust to the other. Users from the trusted forest need to be able to login to PC's in the trusting forest and be presented with their normal mapped network drives etc.
In AD Users and Computers I had the user account configured to map the home drive to \\servername\home\username
Of course this didn't work when a user logged into the other forest because \\servername is not a FQDN and so could not be resolved. I got round this by entering \\servername.domain.com\ho
Is this the "right" way of doing it and normal practice for this kind of scenario, or is there a better way of sorting this out, I've thought of perhaps adding an extra DNS suffix in the client DNS properties but this can't be assigned by DHCP afaik, so how do people work round this?
ASKER
I'm using a stub zone at the moment. I'm not sure that loading a seconday zone would make any difference - the client is not querying for a name in the other domain unless the correct suffix is specified. I'll give it a go anyway though.
fair call - was just a quick thought
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Excellent answer, thanks for your help!
Pleasure :)
Chris
what happens if you load a secondary zone from the DNS server in the remote domain