Cannot Logon To XP After Changing From A Domain To A Workgroup

[Guest]

I recently changed the membership of my laptop from a domain at work to a
workgroup, MSHOME, I wanted to use on my home network. When I tried to
logon, the system would not accept my old logon and password. I've also
tried going in via Safe Mode, and at the logon window I hit ctl/alt/del twice
and used "Administrator" as the user name and no password. I still could not
logon.

I just want to logon like I always have, but right now I'm completely locked
out of my laptop and can't access anything. I'd appreciate any help that
anyone can give that will walk me through how I can log on to my system, and
what, if anything, I should change once I'm in.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and offer your help.

 

[Malke]

I recently changed the membership of my laptop from a domain at work
to a
workgroup, MSHOME, I wanted to use on my home network. When I tried
to
logon, the system would not accept my old logon and password. I've
also tried going in via Safe Mode, and at the logon window I hit
ctl/alt/del twice
and used "Administrator" as the user name and no password. I still
could not logon.

I just want to logon like I always have, but right now I'm completely
locked
out of my laptop and can't access anything. I'd appreciate any help
that anyone can give that will walk me through how I can log on to my
system, and what, if anything, I should change once I'm in.

Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this and offer your
help.

When you disjoined your computer from the domain, you lost your domain
logon account. If you have a local user with administrative privileges,
you can log in that way and rejoin to the domain while on that network.
Most probably you will have to take the laptop to your IT Dept. and
have them do it for you. For future reference, you do not need to
change any settings to use your home network (and now you know why you
shouldn't). Here's how:

(Thanks and credit to MVP Lanwench):
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