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Trust relationship between workstation and primary domain fails

I have a workstation that is having connectivity issues when trying to login to a domain. The error is "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed". I seem to recall having this issue in the past and re-installing the OS. I would like to avoid doing this. Any and all ideas are welcome.

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Giovanni

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Giovanni

If you don't know a local username use Offline Windows Password & Registry Editor, Bootdisk / CD. With this you can list users, remove passwords, enable accounts, elevate privileges to administrator, etc.

There might be multiple reasons for this kind of behaviour. Below are listed a few of them:

Single SID has been assigned to multiple computers.

If the Secure Channel is Broken between Domain controller and workstations

If there are no SPN or DNSHost Name mentioned in the computer account attributes

Outdated NIC Drivers.

bjbrown

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Thanks experts for the quick response, I'll give them a try and let you know. Looks like it will be tomorrow before I have access to the users computer.

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I think that is what x66_x72_x65_x65 and I have already said ?
Unless you have something more specific we have missed?

bjbrown

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Just to keep this thread going and question open..
I tried PantherTech's suggestion --------------You can also try: find computer account in ADUC, right click, reset account. This works most of the time, but not all of the time.---------------

This did not work, good to know this trick however so thanks PantherTech :-)

Will try other suggestions as time allows. I know that the user has to disconnect from the network and then reconnect the CAT5 cable to get on the domain, this happens often. This is a Dell Laptop running W7 32 bit.

Gabriel Clifton

Check the nic, if it is a desktop, swap the nic with another computer. Also, check if power saving feature is turned on and windows is unable to wake the nic up

bjbrown

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Thanks experts, looks like this will be a moot point since the user has replaced the PC.