Can't log in to Windows XP

[Jeff Granger]

(apologies for cross post but this looked like a more active group)

Just got new company laptop that was set up to log on to a domain in the
office. (ctrl-alt-del > user name + password). In trying to connect to my
home network to transfer some files I changed the Domain to Workgroup under
System > Computer Name > Rename, and put in the name of my home Workgroup. I
didn't change anything else.

Rebooted. Now I get to the ctrl-alt-del bit but by user name and password
are not accepted.

Any suggestions how I might get back in?

Jeff

 

[John John]

By joining the Workgroup you have effectively disjoined from the domain
and the trust to the domain has been lost, you can no longer logon to
the domain. You will have to ask the domain administrator to rejoin the
laptop back to the domain. The only way to log back on to the machine
now is with a local administrator account. Try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del
twice at the logon screen and try to log on using the built in
Administrator account, any network/IT administrator worth his salt
should have set a password on the account but maybe the account has no
password. There are ways of using the resources on your home network
without having to join the workgroup, tell your IT person what you want
to accomplish and they should be able to help you set this up.

John

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

(apologies for cross post but this looked like a more active group)

I see you've already gotten an answer to your question, but I wanted
to add a comment about crossposting.

You did *not* crosspost; what you did is multipost. I don't want to
give you a hard time, but for the future, please read my standard post
about multi-posting:

Please do not send the same message separately to more than one
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you poorer help than you should get.

If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please
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[Jeff Granger]

Thanks John

By joining the Workgroup you have effectively disjoined from the domain
and the trust to the domain has been lost, you can no longer logon to the
domain. You will have to ask the domain administrator to rejoin the
laptop back to the domain. The only way to log back on to the machine now
is with a local administrator account. Try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del twice at
the logon screen and try to log on using the built in Administrator
account, any network/IT administrator worth his salt should have set a
password on the account but maybe the account has no password. There are
ways of using the resources on your home network without having to join
the workgroup, tell your IT person what you want to accomplish and they
should be able to help you set this up.

John