Okay, for creating Trust - I ran into the same problem, BUT some questions remain: 1) If I have multiple DC's in both Trusted & Trusting domains, and all (or most) are VMWare, do I need to remove Shared Folders from [ALL] DC's? (On BOTH sides of the trust?) 2) Did anybody test to see if we can JUST disable the registry setting, without having to fully remove shared folders? 3) What's up with having to reboot after removing shared folders? Yeah, yeah, I know: bootloader code, service startup code, registry changes etc. 4) Can shared folders be re-added, after the domain trusts are in place? 5) Someone mentioned shared folders are mainly (or primarily) used for VMWare workstation and are not really needed on servers - is that true? (and that on current versions of ESX, they do not even work on the VM servers) 6) If we don't really care about "Trust Validation," can we just use NETDOM and add the trust? (Sounds like that works, and that just the 'AD Trust GUI validation' is the only part that will not work. Thus, no real need to remove Shared Folders, if we are willing to deal with that minor inconvenience. Seems like MicroSoft and VMWare should be able to come up with some code to route around the issue, but... that's wishful thinking. -- Jeff