Trouble Connecting to sql server Login failed. “The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be used with Windows authentication”

Question

I am trying to host a SQL server database, but whenever I try to connect to it I get this error:

The login is from an untrusted domain and cannot be u

Answer 1

I started to get this error when i tried to login to SSMS using 'windows Authentication'. This started to happen after i renamed the Windows SQL server. I tried everything to resolve this error and in my particular case changing the machine names in the 'hosts' file to reflect the name SQL server name change resolved the issue. C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts