Please Help, cannot log in to laptop

[codeman9]

Hi all,
I have a laptop which is connected to a domain at work. When I brought
it home to use it, initially I could login fine. But then I restarted
and now I cannot login at all. There used to be a part of the login
prompt that asked for a domain, that is now gone. I only have options
for username and password now. I cannot log into safe mode because of
the same problem. The Guest account is disabled, I don't know the
Administrator user password. The username I log in with does have Local
Admin rights though. Is there anything I can do to put the domain
controller back in? I know the domain controller server address and I
have an XP boot CD.

Thanks!
Cody

 

[Martmcd]

You should have an options button below the password box, click this to show
the domain change to ???????(this computer).

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi all,
I have a laptop which is connected to a domain at work. When I brought
it home to use it, initially I could login fine. But then I restarted
and now I cannot login at all. There used to be a part of the login
prompt that asked for a domain, that is now gone. I only have options
for username and password now. I cannot log into safe mode because of
the same problem. The Guest account is disabled, I don't know the
Administrator user password. The username I log in with does have Local
Admin rights though. Is there anything I can do to put the domain
controller back in? I know the domain controller server address and I
have an XP boot CD.

Thanks!
Cody

You need to talk to your network administrator. He will either
rejoin the laptop to the domain or give you a local account/password.

 

[codeman9]

That's what I was afraid of. The network administrator is a jerk. Oh
well. Thanks!

 

[Malke]

That's what I was afraid of. The network administrator is a jerk. Oh
well. Thanks!

That's as it may be, but you are the one who made the mistake of
disjoining your laptop from the domain to work at home. Next time,
follow these instructions from MVP Lanwench to use your domain-enabled
laptop on your home network:

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>

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

Malke