The Trust relationship between the workstation and Domain Failed -Win7

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    The Trust relationship between the workstation and Domain Failed -Win7


    Hi all,

    Over the last week or so, we have experienced an epidemic of Windows 7 PCs displaying the message "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain has failed".

    We have had to manually unjoin and rejoin over 140+ PCs in the last week alone, however some of these same PCs have the same message re-occuring again today...

    So i'm in a rut here, why are the Pcs coming back up with the same Trust message when we already manually fixed them last week....

    Need urgent help to fix this.
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  2. Posts : 42
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    Thread Starter
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    Bumped up, anyone any ideas on this?
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  3. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #3

    From what I found you need to set up Active Directory on the Domain level and add the trusted Users there.

    I've googled around and that is the only fix I can find besides unjoining and rejoining which doesn't seem to be a long term fix. The problem was probably caused by one of those famous Windows updates.

    The trust relationship between this workstation and primary domain - Microsoft Answers
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  4. 2xg
    Posts : 2,377
    Win7 & Win8 64bit
       #4

    Hi sharpharp,

    In addition, can you post an ipconfig /all output of one the problematic computers?

    I've only seen this on one computer's here at my work which was running Vista at that time, but not on any XP and Windows 7 computers.

    Verify that the DNS is pointing to the Private IP from a DNS Server configured in one of your Windows Servers - this is your Server's IP address and not ponting to the external DNS Address provided by your provider.
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    I was also thinking it could be a rogue Windows Update, as it seems to be happened to all the PCs on one floor which were imaged recently and are a different spec, HP elite 8200.

    When rolling this image out, I updated the windows patches (as u do) but they all went in fine initially, then after a few days they have been dropping out one by one...

    IP and DNS is ok, as it is the same DHCP Setup for all the floors of PCS we have.
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  6. Posts : 1
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    Interesting


    I just began deploying some new W7 boxes this week and I had one fall off of the domain this morning. I am assuming my issue was update related as well, seeing that everything was fine on the other end.
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  7. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #7

    You need to setup Active Directory and then add users there,

    *Username:
    *Password:

    in some schools they setup this on the server level, and they have disks
    for each student, so once they logon and join this domain, they will have
    a shared disk in “my computer” where they store everything, but once they
    logoff that machine everything stored on the local C:\ disk will be erased (deleted)
    once you log back on to Windows® everything is gone, and the PC is using the
    default background and settings.

    Read more: The trust relationship between this workstation and primary domain - Microsoft Answers

    This seems to be the only reasonable answer for this problem. No doubt a Security update of some kind but can't really test this out on my end.
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    chev65 said:
    You need to setup Active Directory and then add users there,

    *Username:
    *Password:

    in some schools they setup this on the server level, and they have disks
    for each student, so once they logon and join this domain, they will have
    a shared disk in “my computer” where they store everything, but once they
    logoff that machine everything stored on the local C:\ disk will be erased (deleted)
    once you log back on to Windows® everything is gone, and the PC is using the
    default background and settings.

    Read more: The trust relationship between this workstation and primary domain - Microsoft Answers

    This seems to be the only reasonable answer for this problem. No doubt a Security update of some kind but can't really test this out on my end.
    Hi,

    This has nothing to do with Users or shared disks, this is about the PCs themselves coming up with the trust relationship error.
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  9. Posts : 8,870
    Windows 7 Ult, Windows 8.1 Pro,
       #9

    sharpharp said:
    chev65 said:
    You need to setup Active Directory and then add users there,

    *Username:
    *Password:

    in some schools they setup this on the server level, and they have disks
    for each student, so once they logon and join this domain, they will have
    a shared disk in “my computer” where they store everything, but once they
    logoff that machine everything stored on the local C:\ disk will be erased (deleted)
    once you log back on to Windows® everything is gone, and the PC is using the
    default background and settings.

    Read more: The trust relationship between this workstation and primary domain - Microsoft Answers

    This seems to be the only reasonable answer for this problem. No doubt a Security update of some kind but can't really test this out on my end.
    Hi,

    This has nothing to do with Users or shared disks, this is about the PCs themselves coming up with the trust relationship error.
    I believe that was just an example.

    Seems like they are referring to adding the User names and passwords to the active directory on the actual domain server.

    This problem seems to be fairly wide spread although I did find a couple of sites with some working solutions.
    http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000504.htm

    Lots of people here with the same problem, showing a few solutions but the link above looks to be the best one.
    http://dailytweak.wordpress.com/2010...domain-failed/
    Last edited by chev65; 24 Apr 2012 at 12:42.
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  10. Posts : 1
    Windows 7 Enterprise 32bit
       #10

    Shortcut


    I may not be able to prevent the problem (seems that nobody can) but this should speed up the recovery from it. We use altiris for management and it is able to still communicate with clients that have dropped off the domain and run commands using the system account. Using it, I can send these two commands via cmd script and have it remove the old computer account and rejoin without having to logon. The semicolons designate where normally the next line of powershell code would start and allow for a single command to be used instead.

    Code:
    Powershell -command $pass = convertto-securestring "PlainTextPW" -asplaintext -force;$domaincred = new-object system.management.automation.pscredential 'd204\d204joiner',$pass;remove-computer -credential $domaincred -force
     
    Powershell -command $pass = convertto-securestring "PlainTextPW" -asplaintext -force;$domaincred = new-object system.management.automation.pscredential 'd204\d204joiner',$pass;add-computer -credential $domaincred -domainname 'd204.ipsd.net'
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