Solve “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed“

Overview

I built a home active directory lab while ago. And during some test, I reverted one of my workstations.

Then, after booting it again, I got this error while trying to login as domain admin.

Let’s solve it step by step.

Just More Detailed Than Official Document

Easy steps, follow along.

1. Login to problem workstation using a local administrator’s account.

2. Press Win, search for This PC, right click it and select Properties.

3. Click Change settings.

4. Click Change.

5. Click Workgroup, and give it whatever content you want.

6. Click OK and accept the warning.

7. Wait for a while, click OK again.

8. Accept the restart warning.

9. Click Close, then Restart Now to restart the workstation.

10. Login to the workstation using the same local administrator’s account again. Repeat step 2, 3 and 4.

11. This time, switch back to domain, enter the domain you’re originally in.

12. Click OK and input a domain account’s credential.

13. Click OK, OK, Close and restart the workstation again.

14. Login using domain account now.

Success.

References

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/-the-trust-relationship-between-this-workstation-and-the-primary-domain-failed-error-when-you-log-in-to-windows-7-48124cd3-bae2-2428-f362-bf8da683e59c

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