trust between win2k3 forest and win2k forest issues

i have a windows 2003 forest and a windows 2000 forest and i created a two
trust between the two forest which is external but i am having problems
adding the global group in the win 2000 forest domain to a local group in the
2003 forest domain. i can browse the local groups on the 2003 forest from the
2000forest but when i try to add the gobal group to the local group on 2003
forest the is a permission issue saying i don't have the rights.And from the
2003forest i cannot browse the users in the 2000forest it gives a blank
screen saying server is not available. i have also verified the trust in
both directions with the same users and password which is created in both
forest and it confirms success of the trust.Also the win2000 domain is in
native mode and the win2003 domain is in 2000/2003 native mode.i have the
everyone as member of thr Pre-Windows group. i also have WINS on both dc
replicating and have DNS on both DCS configured and made secondary zones on
each other.and i still get the message the server is not operational when i
try to browse the win2000 forest and even though i can browse the win2003
forest from the 2000forest when i try to join the domain admin group to the
administrators group of the 2003forest i get the message you donot have the
permission to modify the properties of this account.
Please can any one help me with what i could be doing wrong.

 

Slawal, verify this kb too: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/257646/EN-US/

Danilo Bordini

 

the resolution is working fine from both servers because i can ping -a and it
gives me the fully qualified names for the servers in both directions but i
just pulled up the link you sent and found that i was still runniing service
pack 3 on the 2000 box in the 2000forest so i am going to upgrade that and
recreate the trust

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slawal

 

Did you get this to work? I am trying to create a new Windows 2003 forest
that will trust our existiing Windows 2000 forest. This needs to be a one
way trust - Window 2003 forest trusts Windows 2000, not the other way
around. What I have read is confusing me.

basr