changing domain to workgroup

[Guest]

I needed to connect a company laptop to my home network in order to transfer
files. At home I'm set up as a workgroup. The company computer was set up for
a domain. After changing the laptop from domain to workgroup I was prompted
to reboot. When the log on window comes up, I only have Username and Password
fields. The orginal username a password do not work. I did not change any
other setting other than selecting workgroup and filling in the work group
name. Any help would be appreciated

 

[Malke]

I needed to connect a company laptop to my home network in order to
transfer files. At home I'm set up as a workgroup. The company
computer was set up for a domain. After changing the laptop from
domain to workgroup I was prompted to reboot. When the log on window
comes up, I only have Username and Password fields. The orginal
username a password do not work. I did not change any other setting
other than selecting workgroup and filling in the work group name. Any
help would be appreciated

Unfortunately, at this point you'll need to go to your company's systems
administrator and have him/her rejoin your computer to the domain.
After that is done, here is some information from MVP Lanwench about
using your company laptop on a home workgroup:

"Note - you don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources
on it. 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>"

Malke