Vista User Accounts + Problem

[edyzmedieval]

The school, when I gave in my computer to them, installed a specific user account for me to use while I'm at school. It runs as an administrator, but there are some "locks" which I want to get rid of but still keep the account so they won't say that I broke the school rules.

1. For some reason, I can't create a new account, separate, with my own domain, password... How can I do that? It doesn't let me do it through user accounts.

2. PROBLEM - 3 days ago I started experiencing after the boot of Windows this:

The trust relationship between the workstation and the primary domain has failed.

I can only bypass this by using System Restore, but I dont want to do it over and over again!

Any solutions?

[Husar]

1. As an administrator account, which yours probably isn't, if your laptop isn't a school laptop I'd be pretty pissed about them not giving me admin rights to my own laptop, that's like them locking you out of the cellar of your own house.

2. Sorry, haedly ever worked with domains, can't help you there I'm afraid.

[edyzmedieval]

Yes, I know, and I think I will complain some time soon. They want to restrict the access so you won't hack or stuff like that, and also to restrict your access to porn and stuff like that. But it's something like a limited admin account. Bottom line is, you can't go to like bash.org because it's blocked by the network firewall and it's labelled "offensive; vulgarity". And they do all this to protect the juniors of our school. But why in the world can't they make a separate connection?!

And it's my own laptop!

[sapi]

Yes, I know, and I think I will complain some time soon. They want to restrict the access so you won't hack or stuff like that, and also to restrict your access to porn and stuff like that. But it's something like a limited admin account. Bottom line is, you can't go to like bash.org because it's blocked by the network firewall and it's labelled "offensive; vulgarity". And they do all this to protect the juniors of our school. But why in the world can't they make a separate connection?!

And it's my own laptop!

If it's your own laptop, and they refuse to take it off, I'd be tempted to reformat

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

If it's your laptop, I can't see how they could possibily have the legal right to go into your personal belongings and change them. Like Husar said, it would be like someone locking a room in your house and refusing to give you back the key.

I'd complain if I were you. Go to the dean of the school first, but if he/she refuses to do anything, go directly to the school board.

[caravel]

Looks like they've set up an account on your laptop for the domain login. The answer is to set up another user that doesn't log in through the domain, though if you're logging on to their network you'll always have to log in that way (via the domain controller) in order to access it and any other accounts you set up won't be able to access their network or the internet. There's not much you can do about it. Also the content filtering is likely to be running on their server and not on your local machine so this is out of your hands also. Also the "trust relationship" error is appearing because the user account you attempted to log in to the server with wasn't recognised by the domain controller due to it not being on the database.

[edyzmedieval]

The thing with the trust relationship, it's the account set up by the school guy, so it's their own account, but for some reason it has problems. Damn their stupid database.

Now, how can I create an account from the school account? I'm always going to be logged on the school one, but I want a separate one to have when I go home or in weekends, away from school.