I was trying to add my work laptop running XP to my home workgroup also
running XP. When I changed the workgroup, it had me reboot. When I now try
to logon to the laptop, it won't recognize my user name & password. Can I
force it to return to the previous configuration or domain?

thielejet wrote:

> I was trying to add my work laptop running XP to my home workgroup
> also
> running XP. When I changed the workgroup, it had me reboot. When I
> now try
> to logon to the laptop, it won't recognize my user name & password.
> Can I force it to return to the previous configuration or domain?

Yes, that was a mistake. You'll need to have your systems administrator
rejoin your laptop to the domain. There is no other way. Here is
information about using your domain-member laptop on your home network.

Credit to MVP Lanwench: Note - you don't need to change to a workgroup
just to access resources on it. You shouldn't play with your laptop's
network settings at all. Once you've logged in using your domain
account (using cached credentials), and have an IP address on the home
network, you can map drives, use printers, whatnot, very easily - one
way, in a command line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

Also see:

MS KB article about the Net Use command - http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj

Managing One Windows XP-based Laptop for the Office and Home by MVP
Charlie Russel
http://tinyurl.com/cpy9q

http://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm - MVP Hans-Georg Michna

And if that all seems too much and you just want to print a few
documents, transfer them with a usb thumbdrive to one of the Workgroup
boxen instead.

Malke
--
MS-MVP Windows User/Shell
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic"

thielejet wrote:
> I was trying to add my work laptop running XP to my home workgroup
> also running XP. When I changed the workgroup, it had me reboot.
> When I now try to logon to the laptop, it won't recognize my user
> name & password. Can I force it to return to the previous
> configuration or domain?

Try using a user name of Administrator with no password. If this doesn't
work and you don't know the user name and password of any local accounts
then you'll have to follow Malke's advice. In any case when you get back to
work you'll have to get your IT department to rejoin you to the domain
before you can access the company network.

Kerry