Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Trust Relationship Problems
One of the workstations in a domain was displaying "Trust Relationship Between Workstation and Domain has Failed" or something similar whenever a user tried to logon. I was able to logon via the local admin and access the network. This problem is caused by the shared secret or password used by Kerberos that had gotten out of sync with the domain controller.
This particular machine has had some problem with hibernating in the past and is not used on a daily basis so that kind of makes sense. Googling the problem results in many hits that advise you to remove the machine from the domain and then rejoin it. This sounds a little heavy handed and at least one person agrees with me. I attempted the solution using netdom.exe and ran into a few issues and then making a command decision I figured it would take less time to leave and rejoin the domain then to mess with anything else. I can learn something new another day.
After the reboots, the problem was solved and users could login normally. I should look at that hibernate problem while I am here....
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