Automatic Kerberos Transitive Trusts

When an Directory tree or forest is built, as domains are added to the tree, transitive, two-way trust relationships are created between parent and child domains. Figure 18.2 shows three domains in a single tree. The domain names are a.com, b.a.com, and c.a.com. Domain names are, of course, contiguous with the parent DNS domain name.

Figure 18.2. Automatically created trusts in a forest.

A two-way trust relationship exists between domain A and domain B. Also, a two-way trust relationship exists between domain A and domain C. However, an explicit trust relationship does not exist between domain B and domain ...

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