HELP!!! Domain is not available

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Hi everybody.

I really need help with this, it's pretty urgent and i'm very worried
about it.

My boss'es laptop has Windows XP installed and it's in German, and it
has been configured over there... The laptop belongs to 5 domains, I
guess when my boss travels he connects to one or another.

I'm not pretty sure how they configured out the laptop, but there was a
"CH" domain wich allowed to work with the computer without network
connections. When I logged in to the computer it tryed to synchronize
some directories with the server.

One day my boss asked me to configure some stuff, so I try to log in as
the administrator, and I couldn't... Then I thought, if the laptop is
in German, I have to write "administrator" in german... An I couldn't
neighter and I got "The domain CH is not available". I couldn't
connect, and the worst thing is that now I CAN'T log in as the usual
unprivileged user I used before neither!! and the machine is
unusable...

Is there any solution? If I ask the administrator password to the guy
(in Germany or somewhere) who installed and configured the laptop,
Could I log in as admin? Or I will have the same issue?

Please, I REALLY need help, and I am pretty desperate...

I have read about cached logons and some value in the registry in 0-50
range, but I am kind of confuse with that value and I don't know if
that value fix this problem or not... And as I cannot login as admin
(cos I don't have the password) neither the unprivileged user (cos I
get the Domain CH is not available error), so how can I edit the
registry?

I'm really thankfull for your help.

Thanks a lot.

Sorry for my little english.

Cheers.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

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Hi everybody.

I really need help with this, it's pretty urgent and i'm very worried
about it.

My boss'es laptop has Windows XP installed and it's in German, and it
has been configured over there... The laptop belongs to 5 domains, I
guess when my boss travels he connects to one or another.

Not possible for it to belong to more than one domain - are there trusts? Or
is there third party software (Netswitcher, etc)?

I'm not pretty sure how they configured out the laptop, but there was
a "CH" domain wich allowed to work with the computer without network
connections. When I logged in to the computer it tryed to synchronize
some directories with the server.

Cached credentials should allow one to log in to a computer when there's no
connection to the domain...unless someone explicitly configures it not to
allow that.

One day my boss asked me to configure some stuff, so I try to log in
as the administrator, and I couldn't... Then I thought, if the laptop
is in German, I have to write "administrator" in german... An I
couldn't neighter and I got "The domain CH is not available". I
couldn't connect, and the worst thing is that now I CAN'T log in as
the usual unprivileged user I used before neither!! and the machine is
unusable...'

Are you absolutely sure you entered the credentials correctly?

Is there any solution? If I ask the administrator password to the guy
(in Germany or somewhere) who installed and configured the laptop,
Could I log in as admin? Or I will have the same issue?

That's definitely the best thing to try. Or, have your boss log into
it...doesn't that work?

Please, I REALLY need help, and I am pretty desperate...

I have read about cached logons and some value in the registry in 0-50
range, but I am kind of confuse with that value and I don't know if
that value fix this problem or not... And as I cannot login as admin
(cos I don't have the password) neither the unprivileged user (cos I
get the Domain CH is not available error), so how can I edit the
registry?

Note that the password cracking tools you can easily download won't work
with non-local (i.e., domain) accounts.... contact the other admin asap.