XP Login Problem
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This isn't a programming question, but a question about my computer. I hope it's ok to post it here... Anyway, just been playing around with my work laptop at home (Windows XP Pro). It is normally part of a domain (for work). I was trying to get something else working, and so changed it to now be part of a workgroup. Restarted it. Now I cannot login! The box appears, I type my username and password as normal (the domain box has disappeared) and it won't let me in. I guess it has cached the domain part, and now that I am using a workgroup, it doesn't match. Any ideas how I can either login, or somehow change it back to be part of the domain? Probably need to fix this before I go into work on Monday ;) Thanks in advance Andy
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This isn't a programming question, but a question about my computer. I hope it's ok to post it here... Anyway, just been playing around with my work laptop at home (Windows XP Pro). It is normally part of a domain (for work). I was trying to get something else working, and so changed it to now be part of a workgroup. Restarted it. Now I cannot login! The box appears, I type my username and password as normal (the domain box has disappeared) and it won't let me in. I guess it has cached the domain part, and now that I am using a workgroup, it doesn't match. Any ideas how I can either login, or somehow change it back to be part of the domain? Probably need to fix this before I go into work on Monday ;) Thanks in advance Andy
Your username is from the domain, and no longer existant on the laptop as you have removed it from the domain... You need a local user with admin access to save that mess, so if you don't know your local admin password then good luck... - Anders
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This isn't a programming question, but a question about my computer. I hope it's ok to post it here... Anyway, just been playing around with my work laptop at home (Windows XP Pro). It is normally part of a domain (for work). I was trying to get something else working, and so changed it to now be part of a workgroup. Restarted it. Now I cannot login! The box appears, I type my username and password as normal (the domain box has disappeared) and it won't let me in. I guess it has cached the domain part, and now that I am using a workgroup, it doesn't match. Any ideas how I can either login, or somehow change it back to be part of the domain? Probably need to fix this before I go into work on Monday ;) Thanks in advance Andy
Hi, the following bootable floppy (CD can also be created with the files) helped me when I forgot the local Administrator password on my computer (yeah it so happened): http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/[^] The tool basically boots a linux that can read/write ntfs and comes with a special registry editor to reset the admin password and unlock accounts. Of course if you have encrypted files on your computer you still won't be able to read them... HTH Martin "Situation normal - all fu***d up" Illuminatus! -- modified at 9:49 Saturday 7th January, 2006
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This isn't a programming question, but a question about my computer. I hope it's ok to post it here... Anyway, just been playing around with my work laptop at home (Windows XP Pro). It is normally part of a domain (for work). I was trying to get something else working, and so changed it to now be part of a workgroup. Restarted it. Now I cannot login! The box appears, I type my username and password as normal (the domain box has disappeared) and it won't let me in. I guess it has cached the domain part, and now that I am using a workgroup, it doesn't match. Any ideas how I can either login, or somehow change it back to be part of the domain? Probably need to fix this before I go into work on Monday ;) Thanks in advance Andy
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This isn't a programming question, but a question about my computer. I hope it's ok to post it here... Anyway, just been playing around with my work laptop at home (Windows XP Pro). It is normally part of a domain (for work). I was trying to get something else working, and so changed it to now be part of a workgroup. Restarted it. Now I cannot login! The box appears, I type my username and password as normal (the domain box has disappeared) and it won't let me in. I guess it has cached the domain part, and now that I am using a workgroup, it doesn't match. Any ideas how I can either login, or somehow change it back to be part of the domain? Probably need to fix this before I go into work on Monday ;) Thanks in advance Andy
Basically, you really screwed yourself. I take it you have to put it back into the domain before someone at work finds out?? Not going to happen. You can't add it back to the domain without being attatched to the network in the domain. Secondly, you have to remove the computer account from the domain before you add this machine back into it. You'll need to be a member of that domain's DomainAdmins group. I take it you're not one them? Now, to your more immediate problem. Since you removed the computer from the domain, you can no longer use the domain user accounts to login. The trust between the machine and the domain is now broken and cannot be restored. Just to login to the machine, you'll need a username and password that the machines local SAM database knows about. You can usually get in using the local Administrator account. All you need to to is reset the password if you don't know it. There is no utility that will tell you what the password is, but they all can reset the password to something you specify. (Actually, the part about telling you what the password is isn't entirely true. It is possible, but can take ages for the utility to figure out what it is.) Once you get the local Administrator account password reset, you can do whatever you want to the machine, except put it back into the domain! The local Admin account has no rights to the domain. RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome -- modified at 11:22 Saturday 7th January, 2006