Going from a domain at work to a workgroup at home

[Guest]

I use a Dell laptop at work on a domain. I brought it home today to do some
work and I wanted to use my home printer so I changed the network setting
from domain to workgroup.
I had to reboot and now I can't logon, it won't accept my password.

I need help please!!

 

[Dave]

you need to take it back to work and beg a domain admin to rejoin it to the
domain so your account works again. obviously you have a domain account and
not a local machine account so the machine all by itself has no idea who you
are, it needs the domain to validate you. there is an outside chance you
could login with a user name like domain\username, but only if the machine
has cached your credentials. (that slash may be the / slash instead, i
forget right now).

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

The cached credential should be gone as it now in a workgroup. This is a
very common issue. Once you get the machine working back on the domain at
work your only real fix would be to make your workgroup at homew the same
name as your domain name at work and then you should be able to browse at
home and sharem resources.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I might take it into work tomorrow ans see if I can get it back to
normal.

Thank you for the response, Scott

 

[robert]

to get it working on both the domain and workgroup, join the domain again.
then follow these instructions:
www.guidescentral.com
windows/XP tips
tip#41