Took comp. off domain, how do I put it back?

[Rich Grise]

I was poking around in TCP/IP properties, with 4 computers plugged
into a hub that's plugged by its uplink port to a DSL modem. I was
only poking around with the one, and one item was whether or not
it's on a domain. It thought it was, and actually, it used to be.
But that domain no longer exists, but the boss was logging onto
it anyway.

Not knowing this, I cavalierly decided, "Hey, this computer doesn't
need to be on a domain. I'll just put it in WORKGROUP like the rest
of them." Did so, rebotted, and the boss's password doesn't work
either. Neither of us knows the administrator password, but apparently
account "joe" has admin rights. So he can log on to one of the non-
domain accounts, but can only access that account's stuff by copying
files, which he doesn't want to do because of the disk space issue.

So, how do I put the computer back on that domain?

Thanks,
Rich Grise, de facto computer guy
ABI Engineering
562-696-4686
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

If "Joe" has admin rights, he should be able to take ownership of the data
your boss wants back. You don't need to copy it; you can just move it. This
is presuming it's still there....

I'd set up a data folder at the root of C or D or whatnot - like C:\DATA -
and put the files there & redirect the My Documents shortcut on the desktop
to point there. I don't like using My Documents in the profile folder....too
many bad things can happen to profiles.

 

[Rich Grise]

Thanks for this; I was able to import MS Outlook's mailbox and stuff,
and I just created shortcuts to his other data on his new desktop,
but they're also using something called "Quickbooks" which no
longer runs, and when we tried to reinstall it, it said "RPC
server is unavailable."

Is there any hope?

Thanks again,
Rich

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at
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"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"