Can't Disconnect From Domain

[mswansonpcs]

Hello, our company recently merged with another. Our computers were
connected to a domain via VPN and that worked fine in our old offices.
Now that we are in the new office attached to the new companies server,
we cannot disconnect from the old domain. When we try it asks for
authentications, says it cannot authenticate (of course because it is
trying to authenticate to non-existant domain). How can we break the
ties with our old server without actually being connected to it?

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Have you tried moving your server(s) into a workgroup then back into the new
companies domain ? that should remove any pointers to the prevous domain..

 

[mswansonpcs]

Actually yes, it won't let us leave the domain, evidently we nee
"permission" to do so. Something the server must have had enabled..

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

Hello, our company recently merged with another. Our computers were
connected to a domain via VPN and that worked fine in our old offices.
Now that we are in the new office attached to the new companies server,
we cannot disconnect from the old domain. When we try it asks for
authentications, says it cannot authenticate (of course because it is
trying to authenticate to non-existant domain). How can we break the
ties with our old server without actually being connected to it?

Hi,

As far as I remember you just press the OK button on the authentication
dialog box (without filling any information into it, and you may need
to do it a couple of times), and then the computer will be unjoined
from the old domain.