Can not log on after change workgroup from Domain

[Guest]

Hi XP Profs,

I have attached my two computers ( 1 desktop with Win 98 and 1 laptop with
XP) to my DSL modem through a router. Both PCs access the Internet just fine,
but neither sees the other one.
After I following a article in PC World
(http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,115070,00.asp), the desktop with
Win 98 work fine, but I can not log on to the laptop with XP Prof. And
advice on the issue? Any actions I can take before I call helpdesk next
Monday?

The laptop is my company's with company domain set up. I add a common
workgroup name and deselect the domain. I tried both the admin account and my
user account and failed. The company has overwrite the password for admin
through a software.

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

after changing the workgroup from the domain, you lost the all domain users'
password.

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[Guest]

Thanks, Robert,

I checked your website, some very creative ideas. I should have followed
your advice before I changed from domain to workgroup.

Any advices to log on the work laptop locally? I tried to use safe mode.

 

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

if you don't care logon domain, you may have some options. 1. try
administrator with blank password. 2. do you know you have local user ID? if
yes, you may try it. 3. you may recover the password. Search
http://www.ChicagoTech.net. it used to use some information how to do that.
But I am not sure.

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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi XP Profs,

I have attached my two computers ( 1 desktop with Win 98 and 1 laptop
with XP) to my DSL modem through a router. Both PCs access the
Internet just fine, but neither sees the other one.
After I following a article in PC World
(http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,115070,00.asp), the
desktop with Win 98 work fine, but I can not log on to the laptop
with XP Prof. And advice on the issue? Any actions I can take before
I call helpdesk next Monday?

The laptop is my company's with company domain set up. I add a common
workgroup name and deselect the domain. I tried both the admin
account and my user account and failed. The company has overwrite the
password for admin through a software.

You've locked your keys in your car - however, your company let you do this
by allowing your account to have local admin rights.

The only way you can log in is by using the local admin account & password -
but even this will not 'restore' anything or give you access to your old
domain profile. You need to bring your laptop back to work and ask the
domain admin to rejoin it to the domain. He or she will need to know the
local admin credentials on the laptop.

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>