Domain vs Workgroup password problem

[Guest]

I changed the setting on my system from belonging to a domain to belonging to
a workgroup. After rebooting, the system will not accept the sign-on
password, with an error message to 'make sure your user name and domain are
correct". Any suggestions - I'm totally locked out of my system.

 

[Guest]

Now or are in a workgroup and don't belong to any domain. That means that you
should use a Local user account (done throught the computer management of
this machine).
If you don't know such account, the only way I know is to try guessing
password for Administrator account.

 

[Malke]

Now or are in a workgroup and don't belong to any domain. That means
that you
should use a Local user account (done throught the computer
management of this machine).
If you don't know such account, the only way I know is to try guessing
password for Administrator account.

If you do not have a local account with administrator privileges on the
machine, you will need to take it to your work systems administrator
and have them rejoin you to the domain.

Malke

 

[Bruce Chambers]

I changed the setting on my system from belonging to a domain to belonging to
a workgroup. After rebooting, the system will not accept the sign-on
password, with an error message to 'make sure your user name and domain are
correct". Any suggestions - I'm totally locked out of my system.

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).


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[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I changed the setting on my system from belonging to a domain to
belonging to a workgroup. After rebooting, the system will not
accept the sign-on password, with an error message to 'make sure your
user name and domain are correct". Any suggestions - I'm totally
locked out of my system.

To chime in:

The only way you can log in is by using the local admin account & password -
if you don't know it, there are utilities to crack it, but note that even
this will not 'restore' anything to its previous settings or give you access
to your old domain profile. If this is a company computer, you need to bring
it back to work and ask the domain admin to rejoin it to the domain. He or
she will need to know the local admin credentials on the computer.

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>