Domain trusts

I thought I had blogged this already but we had major problems trying to create a trust between our w2k domain on a remote network and our w2k domain locally with errors saying that our server was not operational when trying to add permissions. This was due to the additional step (compared to nt4 domains) of having to ensure that dns and zone transfers are setup correctly beforehand. It would have been nice if the Domains And Trust mmc told you about this instead of having to find the JSI Tip 4606. You can't access the users list in a trust because the 'The server is not operational'?
And yes I know if we'd read the manual we might have known that - but there isn't a manual for w2k anymore - but thats another story.