Windows 2003 DNS integration with Windows 2003 SBS DNS ngomes 10/17/2008 3:17:01 PM I recently setup a new 2003 domain for let’s call it company A. Company A is now going to merge with Company B & C. Company B&C are running on separate windows 2003 SBS. Company A is hosting an application that is going to be used throughout A, B&C. I have tried to setup DNS from each location by setting up new forward lookup zones. The zones show up in the DNS as company B look up zone but if I ping a PC in company b just by name it will not ping unless I ping the FQDN. Any Ideas??

Re: Windows 2003 DNS integration with Windows 2003 SBS DNS Andrew Hodgson <me3[ at ]privacy.net> 10/18/2008 7:52:37 PM On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:17:01 -0700, ngomes <ngomes[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I recently setup a new 2003 domain for let’s call it company A. Company A >is now going to merge with Company B & C. Company B&C are running on separate >windows 2003 SBS. Company A is hosting an application that is going to be >used throughout A, B&C. I have tried to setup DNS from each location by >setting up new forward lookup zones. The zones show up in the DNS as company >B look up zone but if I ping a PC in company b just by name it will not ping >unless I ping the FQDN. Any Ideas?? The best way of doing this is to use the DHCP server domain search option which is option 119 in the DHCP server. If you add your other domains to this option, you will be able to ping the machine by hostname, and it will attempt to ping the hostname using the domain suffixes found in the search list from the first to the last suffix. I said best way, because currently I have the same issue, and am unable to get the XP clients to look at this option, and so I am looking at another way to distribute the domain search list to clients. Andrew.

Re: Windows 2003 DNS integration with Windows 2003 SBS DNS Jens Imsan 10/19/2008 8:41:01 AM Hi Andrew, wich SP is installed on your XP-clients? If it's SP3 then have a look at this: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953761 Perhaps that's the whole problem and you don't need to find other solutions. Cheers! Jens "Andrew Hodgson" wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:17:01 -0700, ngomes > <ngomes[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > > I recently setup a new 2003 domain for let’s call it company A. Company A > >is now going to merge with Company B & C. Company B&C are running on separate > >windows 2003 SBS. Company A is hosting an application that is going to be > >used throughout A, B&C. I have tried to setup DNS from each location by > >setting up new forward lookup zones. The zones show up in the DNS as company > >B look up zone but if I ping a PC in company b just by name it will not ping > >unless I ping the FQDN. Any Ideas?? > > The best way of doing this is to use the DHCP server domain search > option which is option 119 in the DHCP server. If you add your other > domains to this option, you will be able to ping the machine by > hostname, and it will attempt to ping the hostname using the domain > suffixes found in the search list from the first to the last suffix. > > I said best way, because currently I have the same issue, and am > unable to get the XP clients to look at this option, and so I am > looking at another way to distribute the domain search list to > clients. > > Andrew. >