Tuesday 30 July 2013

“The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship”

Thought this was worth a mention as i was struggling trying to find out why one of our servers running Windows server 8 standard would not let us log on to the widows 2003 domain even though the domain had excepted the device.
When you tried to login we got the following.

“The security database on the server does not have a computer account for this workstation trust relationship”

Cause: This is usually caused by having a mixed Active Directory Server environment with 2003 domains & member Server 2008 servers & Windows 7 PCs on a Server 2003 domain.
Solution:
  1. Unplug the network cables on the Server/PC that is inaccessible..
  2. Login on to the Server/PC that is inaccessible with an account that has Administrator privileges.
  3. Plug the server network cable back in while logged on.
  4. Change the domain name from FQDN (xyz123.local ) to the short name (xyz123).
  5. Reboot the server and log back in as the domain user and all should be fine.
This fixed the problem.

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