Help! Can't login as I changed the domain to a workgroup

[jhannah123]

I was trying to hook my sister's Win2K laptop up to my home network, but
things went awry.

I went to the system settings, where domain was selected and the name
of her work domain was entered.

I chose the radio button for Workgroup instead, and entered the name of
my home network workgroup. It said to reboot.

Upon reboot, she can't login. It's a work computer and she doesn't
have an administrator password, and she's home for the holidays:

1. Is there anything we can do to get her logged in? (i doubt it)

2. What will her work IT people need to do for her to log in? Can she
get in with just and administrator password, or does she need to be
hooked up to her work network? And, if I've now told it not to look
for her work network anymore, will the administrator password work?

(paraphrased... a) how much trouble did I get her (and thus me!) in!
b) is there anything we can do to fix it!)

happy holidays and thanks for your help.


jhannah123

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Tell her to take the laptop back to work and ask them to rejoin the computer
to the domain - you didn't need to do what you did in order to have her
access workgroup/other domain resources, btw. This is one of the main
reasons IT folk don't like to grant user accounts local admin rights.

 

[jhannah123]

btw, how do I allow her access to local network stuff at home?

on my other computers I load the win xp disc which loads the necessary
software, and then I can see them if I go to the network
neighborhood... but I tried that and it's compatible with xp/me/98, but
not 2k. if I want to be able to do file transfers between that pc and
the others on my home network, what would i do?


jhannah123

 

[David Robbins]

I was trying to hook my sister's Win2K laptop up to my home network, but
things went awry.

I went to the system settings, where domain was selected and the name
of her work domain was entered.

I chose the radio button for Workgroup instead, and entered the name of
my home network workgroup. It said to reboot.

Upon reboot, she can't login. It's a work computer and she doesn't
have an administrator password, and she's home for the holidays:

1. Is there anything we can do to get her logged in? (i doubt it)

2. What will her work IT people need to do for her to log in? Can she
get in with just and administrator password, or does she need to be
hooked up to her work network? And, if I've now told it not to look
for her work network anymore, will the administrator password work?

try having her login with a user name like domain\username where 'domain'
is her old domain name and username is her work user name. this should get
her back into the machine until she gets back to work and can get it back on
the domain properly. you won't be able to get it back on the domain until
her IT people can get to it. just don' t try to fix profiles or do anything
to the existing accounts or you could lose all her work stuff. if her
account doesn't have enough permission to release the ip address and get a
new one from your home network, or to change it manually there is nothing
you can do to get it to talk to your home network... that will be up to
whatever level of permission her IT people set it up for... though if you
were able to take it off the domain from her account it probably has enough
to change the ip address.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Have her log into the cached domain account. Make sure she has an IP address
assigned by DHCP on your home network or you've changed her IP address
accordingly. See if she can ping one of the other computers by name - if so,
then try by IP.

Then map a drive letter in windows explorer or in a command line -

net use x: \\othercomputer\sharename
/userthercomputer\usernameonthatcomputer