we have 2 different domains bth windows 2000 mixed mode.

We have an external trust setup.

when I map shares between the 2 domains, I can only map it either ip or FQDN,

example: my domain is called: square.com and the other is circle.net

i have to go:

\\fileserver.circle.net\share$

or \\192.x.x.x\share$

however, the only way I can map

\\fileserver\share$ is if I create that DNS record on my dns server as: "fileserver" pointing to the 192.x.x.x address example above.


its not a huge issue, but I was just wondering why I can't resolve it as just "fileserver". I have setup the dns server on circle.net as a secondary zone.


If i replicate square.com's wins database to circle.net's wins server, will it solvethe problem?


Thanks.