From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Management and Implementation
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Trusts overview - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2012 Active Directory: Management and Implementation
Trusts overview
Any time you're in a multiple name environment, whether you be in a single force or a multiple force situation, users from one domain may have to access resources in another domain. Or, in order for DNS to resolve resources between those different domains, we need to set up trusts relationships so that we can access those resources appropriately and efficiently. So we're going to be looking at some of the terms that are involved in setting up trusts, or establishing a trust, or even after the trusts have been established, some of the troubleshooting aids. So some of the terms that we're going to be looking at is a term called "trusted" and "trusting." If you think about it in this mindset, you have an environment over here where there are some resources, there's an environment over here where there's user accounts. So I put an "R" for resources, an "A" for accounts. Now, it could also be accounts over here and resources over there. But for simplicity, we have resources and we have an…