Problem logging on after changing domain - PLEASE HELP!

[Guest]

I just changed a visiting customer's user's domain from their company's domain to our default "WORKGROUP" domain. I had to reboot to chnage setting, and upon reboot I can no longer log in as that user. And there is no drop-down box on the login screen to select the old domain. Help!

 

[Pegasus]

I just changed a visiting customer's user's domain from their company's

domain to our default "WORKGROUP" domain. I had to reboot to chnage setting,
and upon reboot I can no longer log in as that user. And there is no
drop-down box on the login screen to select the old domain. Help!

You have to ask the visitor's Network Administrator to re-register the
machine on his domain. Alternatively you can ask him for a local account
name and password.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I just changed a visiting customer's user's domain from their
company's domain to our default "WORKGROUP" domain. I had to reboot
to chnage setting, and upon reboot I can no longer log in as that
user. And there is no drop-down box on the login screen to select the
old domain. Help!

You changed him from a domain from a workgroup, and you don't know the local
admin password, apparently, so you can't log in at all. Ask him if he can
call his IT folks to find out the credentials - but note that his old
windows profile won't be available until he brings it back to his IT people
and asks them to rejoin the computer to the domain.

You don't need to change this setting just to let a 'visitor' on a
domain-configured laptop access resources on your workgroup - they can log
in normally with their cached domain credentials and then map drives, etc.,
to your network shares by providing the appropriate credentials for that
host computer.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

By changing the computer from the domain to a workgroup, you have
destroyed the trust between the domain and the machine. In doing so,
you have also rendered any domain login credentials as invalid. You
need to be physically connected to the domain network, you need to
have administrative privileges to the workstation, and you need to
have administrative privileges on the domain. Then you can add the
machine back on to the domain, after having first deleted the
computer's old domain account (unless you've also renamed the
computer).


Bruce Chambers
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I just changed a visiting customer's user's domain from their

company's domain to our default "WORKGROUP" domain. I had to reboot to
chnage setting, and upon reboot I can no longer log in as that user.
And there is no drop-down box on the login screen to select the old
domain. Help!