I'm reading an exam guide from a well-known publisher at the moment for a Windows 2016 cert and trying to get my head around domain/forest trusts. It seems to me that this section/table in the book is wrong, that the outgoing and incoming words are the wrong way around, but as I don't really grok this area yet I can't be sure. Can someone confirm pls?
Trust Direction Description
One-way outgoing The local domain is the trusted domain and the remote domain is the trusting domain. Unidirectional.
One-way incoming The local domain is the trusting domain and the remote domain is the trusted domain. Unidirectional.
Two-way Both domains are trusted and trusting. Bidirectional.
thanks
Best Answer
It's backwards. The point of the arrow indicates the trusted domain, and the direction of the arrow relative to the local domain is the incoming/outgoing part.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc731404(v=ws.11)
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/it-pro/windows-server-2008-R2-and-2008/cc794933%28v%3dws.10%29
One-way: incoming. A one-way, incoming trust allows authentication requests that are sent by users in your domain or forest (the domain or forest where you started the New Trust Wizard) to be routed successfully to resources in the other domain or forest.
One-way: outgoing. A one-way, outgoing trust allows authentication requests that are sent by users in the other domain (the domain or forest that you are indicating in the New Trust Wizard as the specified domain or forest) to be routed successfully to resources in your domain or forest.