Fix Trust Relationship Failed Without Domain Rejoining

Fix trust relationship failed without Domain rejoining is what many users are interested in. It will be quite impatient when you work on the server and receive this error.

In this post, our Trustguide team will help you to solve this problem with many options. Let’s follow us closely not to miss any step.

What Are Trust Relationships Between Domains?

The Trust relationship is a communication and administration connection among domains. Users’ information can be shared in global domain groups without authentication.

As a result, it connects users’ accounts and relationships into an administrative unit. It makes the user experience easier. The information is also simply sorted by domains under an administrative unit.

What Are The Causes Of Failed Trust Relationship?

This problem will appear if your computer is not trusted in the Domain. At this point, your computer cannot access the network as it is offline. In other words, your computer’s membership has been lost in the AD domain (Active Directory domain).

Besides, the secure connection between AD and the workstation is broken. It can be caused by a password mismatch between AD and your computer or by unexpected network problems.

In addition, a few common situations cause a Trust relationship to fail. One of them is Windows re-installing or resetting users. 

Finally, trouble may appear if you are restoring a virtual machine or changing hardware parts of the machine.

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Fix Trust Relationship Failed Without Domain Rejoining

Active/Reset Machine Account Password

When the computer is linked to the AD domain, your password will be the same. This password is valid for 1 month by default. Therefore, you need to change or reset the password to avoid errors related to the Trust relationship.

Use Active Directory User and Computers

Using Active Directory User and Computers is one of the simplest and fastest ways to reset your account password.

• Step 1: Click Start and point to Administrative Tools to open the Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) tab.
• Step 2: In the ADUC console tree, right-click on the computer/container object, then click to Reset account
• Step 3: An Active Directory Domain Services tab will appear and ask: “Are you sure you want to reset your account?”. Click the “Yes” button. You have completed resetting the password with simple steps.

Change The Password Age

Instead of changing or resetting the password after a month to avoid the Trust relationship error, you can change the password age on the Domain by using the GPO parameter Domain option.

• Step 1: Use the Windows + R key combination to open the Run dialog box, type in the box “gpedit.msc” and click OK or press Enter. The Group Policy editor tab will appear.
• Step 2: Click Computer Configuration and choose Windows Settings. Go to Local Policies and click on Security Options.
• Step 3: At the Domain member: Maximum account password age, you can choose the number of days the password lasts (from 0 to 999 days).
• Step 4: Click to save changes.

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Disable The Account Password Change

Disabling password changes will help limit missed cycles, avoiding the broken trust relationship. However, it would be best if you only considered it as a last resort.

• Step 1: At the domain workstations, open the registry editor (type in “regedit.exe” to the box). Choose Parameters and click to DisablePasswordChange or Edit menu select New.
• Step 2: Change to 1.
• Step 3: Click OK and close the registry tab.

Restart The Computer

The next way to resolve the failed trust relationship, especially in Windows 7, is to restart the computer.

• Step 1: Log in to your computer, and open the Run tab by pressing Windows and R key combination. Type “system.cpl” in the box and click OK (or press Enter). The Properties tab will appear.
• Step 2: Click Change settings, Point to Computer Name and choose Change.
• Step 3: Click to Workgroup, type in your workgroup name, and click to OK. On your computer screen will appear to Restart the computer option. Click to OK
• Step 4: The Computer Name tab will appear, choose Domain and type in the domain name. Click to Change.
• Step 5: The restart option will appear again. Click OK. So you have successfully restarted the computer.

Alternatively, you can also disconnect then restart the computer through Settings. Open the Settings tab with Windows and I key combination. Click to Accounts -> Access work or school. Above “Related settings”, click to Disconnect.

After confirming the connection loss, your computer will default to a WORKGROUP member. Then, restart the computer like the steps above.

Conclusion

Overall, you can activate or reset the Machine Account password or reset the computer to fix Trust Relationship failed without Domain rejoining.You can follow our Trustguide site for more useful information. See you in the next ones!