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