Thanks for the links I will read up on Monday, good old Joe, always got the 411 on AD stuff.. Z
Edward Ziots CISSP, Security +, Network + Security Engineer Lifespan Organization [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Free, Bob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2012 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed. Finally answered as only joe could If you know joe, you know he often goes to extraordinary lengths to get to the bottom of things. I know many have struggled with this at various times since the NT days. This is a perfect example of the explanation- http://blog.joeware.net/2012/06/05/2508/ And the resultant tool - MachinePwd http://blog.joeware.net/2012/06/07/2513/ Thanks joe! You make us look good once again :-] <paste> Quick Summary of what most people will use it for? 1.You see a message on a member machine (workstation or server) that says "The Trust Relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.". 2.You log onto the machine with administrator credentials (either local or cached as specified by DaveS in the previous post) 3.You have someone reset the machine account in Active Directory, this can be done via ADUC or if you look at the usage for MachinePwd it will show you how to do it with adfind and admod. Whatever you do, just get the password on the machine account set to the lowercase version of its name. I.E. A machine that was named LIVEHAPPY should have the password set to livehappy. 4.Open an administrator privilege command prompt (i.e. if using UAC you must do RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR) 5.Run the machinepwd utility with the fix switch... Ex: machinepwd /fix 6.You should be fixed. <./paste> ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
