I guess I will start off by telling you that I have a NT 4.0 domain, I'm in the middle of trying to setup a 2000 Domain with two way trusted rights. My problem is that my new 2000 Domain will not setup the DNS server the correct way. It does not make all the nessesary entries to the foward lookup zones. When setting up Active Directory, it ussually asks if you want to setup DNS. But in my case it did not, Since I have a NT 4.0 DNS server running. I've unplugged the Server from the network, and it installed DNS because it could not find a DNS server, but it did not add the correct entries. By removing the DNS server & adding it back, does not fix the problem. How does one setup the DNS server as if Active directory asked to do it for you? Thanks in advance. Joeteck

Hi, DNS requirements for Active Directory are: Support SRV records Support for the dynamic update Support for the incremental zone transfers. Probably DNS service is on the NT 4 server does not provide the requirements of the AD. You should install windows 2000 dns service and set allow dynamic update "YES " forward lookup zones and reverse lookup zones. if you don't set aloow dynamic update to yes the necessary SRV records and sub domain don't created ( _msdcs,_sites_,tcp_,udp are sub domains) You can set Allow Dynamic Update YES under domain properties\general tab from DNS server MMC You must additional settings on the machine Set it as a dns client Type primary DNS suffix (My computer\properties\computer Name\change\more) And server has static ip.