small. You can force replication from the WINS MMC GUI. You can also "connect" to the other server from the single MMC and that might prove you have IP working between them. Bryan Blair Guest Posts: n/a 's Computer Specifications 11th Aug 2003 After waiting a little bit longer replication took place......Everything is working fine now!! Thanks for the advice!! "Herb Martin" &lt;(E-Mail Removed)&gt; wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)... &gt; &gt; "Bryan Blair" &lt;(E-Mail Removed)&gt; wrote in message &gt; news -(E-Mail Removed)... &gt; &gt; I added the Domain Name for DNS Server A in the Suffix tab under TCP &gt; &gt; properties for a workstation in the opposite Domain and was able to ping &gt; the &gt; &gt; corresponding Host name!!! &gt; &gt; Cool. See what happens in DNS is the "single name" is &gt; insufficient. So when you type a bare name like that it's &gt; going to fail -- BUT it works because the resolver sticks &gt; Domain.Com (whatever) on the end. &gt; &gt; Two more choices exist for this "auto suffixing": &gt; checking parent domains (check box in NIC\IP DNS too) &gt; extra suffixes in the NIC properties (You used that.) &gt; Parent domains/zones work by removing the left-most tag &gt; from the machine's domain-part and trying (each) that. &gt; So if a machine is in a deep tree, e.g., &gt; &gt; machine.grand.child.domain.com. &gt; &gt; First it tries the full name, then it would drop grand, then child. &gt; I have never checked to see if it