Letgar said:
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>