no logon servers available when connecting to most servers in trus

I have a two way forest trust. I can browse files on a external trusted
domain controller(server A) but when I go to browse files on a external
trusted member server(server I get a "no logon servers available" error .
I can ping both servers by hostname. I am using secondary zones to transfer
records between trusts. It seems intermittent but has gotten worse however I
don't think it is networking because I can connect to domain controller and
users from remote domain in trust can connect back to this trust's various
servers without a problem.

 

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> I have a two way forest trust. I can browse files on a external trusted
> domain controller(server A) but when I go to browse files on a external
> trusted member server(server I get a "no logon servers available" error
> .
> I can ping both servers by hostname. I am using secondary zones to
> transfer
> records between trusts. It seems intermittent but has gotten worse
> however I
> don't think it is networking because I can connect to domain controller
> and
> users from remote domain in trust can connect back to this trust's various
> servers without a problem.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


A "No long servers are available" can indicate a misconfigured trust, DNS,
or NetBIOS. When one connects from one domain to a trusted domain's
resource, the authentication request will use pass-through authentication
from the connecting user's DC to the DC of the other domain. This is all
based on NetBIOS.

This could also be a browser service issue, since direct connections work
(UNC or mapped drives), but connecting through a browsed resource doesn't.

Are you using WINS oin both domains, and have a WINS replication partnership
between the WINS servers?

Any errors in the event logs on any of the DC?

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Ace

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