What are the different types of trust relationships


Implicit Trusts ----- Establish trust relationship automatically.

Explicit Trusts ----- We have to build manually trust relationship .NT to Win2k or      Forest to Forest

Transitive ----- If A ó B ó C then Aó C

Non-Transitive ----- If A ó B ó C then A is not trusting C

One way ----- One side

Two way ----- two sides

 
Windows Server 2003 Active Directory supports the following types of trust relationships:



Tree-root trust Tree-root trust relationships are automatically established when you add a new tree root domain to an existing forest. This trust relationship is transitive and two-way.


Parent-child trust Parent-child trust relationships are automatically established when you add a new child domain to an existing tree. This trust relationship is also transitive and two-way.


Shortcut trust Shortcut trusts are trust relationships that are manually created by systems administrators. These trusts can be defined between any two domains in a forest, generally for the purpose of improving user logon and resource access performance. Shortcut trusts can be especially useful in situations where users in one domain often need to access resources in another, but a long path of transitive trusts separates the two domains. Often referred to as cross-link trusts, shortcut trust relationships are transitive and can be configured as one-way or two-way as needs dictate.


Realm trust Realm trusts are manually created by systems administrators between a non–Windows Kerberos realm and a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain. This type of trust relationship provides cross-platform interoperability with security services in any Kerberos version 5 realms, such as a UNIX implementation. Realm trusts can be either transitive or nontransitive, and one-way or two-way as needs dictate.


External trust External trusts are manually created by systems administrators between Active Directory domains that are in different forests, or between a Windows Server 2003 Active Directory domain and a Windows NT 4.0 domain. These trust relationships provide backward compatibility with Windows NT 4.0 environments, and communication with domains located in other forests that are not con-figured to use forest trusts. External trusts are nontransitive and can be configured as either one-way or two-way as needs dictate.


Forest trust Forest trusts are trust relationships that are manually created by systems administrators between forest root domains in two separate forests. If a forest trust relationship is two-way, it effectively allows authentication requests from users in one forest to reach another, and for users in either forest to access resources in both. Forest trust relationships are transitive between two forests only and can be configured as either one-way or two-way as needs dictate.

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