Hi Qusai A simple trust will not enable GAL replication between the two forests even if you do get it working. Just as a quick side note I have a Windows 2000 in Mixed mode forest and another 2003 one in 2000 Native mode and have a trust between them just fine. The only thing I had to do was make sure that each domains DNS was replicated or manually set up to have the entries for the domain controllers of the other. If you want GAL replication you will need a meta-directory service and that will cost money and time to implement as it is not simple. Why do you need two separate Forests? Would two domains in the same forest not suffice or at least two domain trees in the same Forest? Regards, Paul Lemonidis. ----- Original Message ----- From: Qusai A. AL Haddad To: [ExchangeList] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 6:19 PM Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Two Forest Replication http://www.MSExchange.org/ First of all Thanx a lot for all replies I am having both 2003 and they can see their DNS records and both are raised to functional level windows 2003 And after that I want to deploy multiforest exchange solutions Kind regards Qusai From: Mulnick, Al [mailto:Al.Mulnick@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:44 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Two Forest Replication http://www.MSExchange.org/ Besides, when you configured DNS, how did you configure it? Are they able to see the entire DNS records, or did you just populate your DNS with some A RR's? An Active Directory question would be more likely answered on a different list unless you want to deploy a multi-forest Exchange solution. Then we could help out a little better. :) Al ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: John Tolmachoff (Lists) [mailto:johnlist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 12:29 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] RE: Two Forest Replication http://www.MSExchange.org/ Since this is not a Exchange question, you would probably get a better answer asking on a MS AD newsgroup. John Tolmachoff Engineer/Consultant/Owner eServices For You -----Original Message----- From: Qusai A. AL Haddad [mailto:qusai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 8:46 AM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Two Forest Replication http://www.MSExchange.org/ Dear All I have 2 forest with 2 domain controller " 123.com" and "xyz.com" I am trying to do a trust between the two I configure the DNS for both domains now each one can ping others records.. Now I am trying to do a trust between the two domain I am getting this error The verification of the incoming trust failed with the following error(s): The trust password verification test was inconclusive. A secure channel reset will be attempted. The secure channel reset failed with error 1311: There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. The verification of the outgoing trust failed with the following error(s): The trust password verification test was inconclusive. A secure channel reset will be attempted. The secure channel reset failed with error 1311: There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request. 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