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[Guest]

So I am in REAL big trouble right now. like real big trouble
I was trying to get my dad's computer networked onto our home network so he
can print to our printer here. I was going into system properties,
specifically the network tab, and seeing if there was some way I can just
"add" a workgroup. I clicked this weird button called "Network ID" (I'm on XP
Pro SP2). I clicked the radio button called "not on domain, blah
blah"...clicked next...and I said to myself "oh crap" not good. Clicked out,
restarted...

....and I couldn't log back on. In fact it lost its "home". It won't see a
server like it usually does, and it won't locally log on to the computer.
Safe mode didn't work..its like its lost everything.....

PLEASE Help!!! THE ONLY SOLUTION I HAVE RIGHT NOW IS POSSIBLY PLUGGING THE
COMPUTER BACK INTO ITS "HOME" (the office), and hopefully the computer will
pick up all the network settings there..

PLEASE HELP. HIGHLEVEL STRESS GOING ON, WITH A WEDDING AND ALL, AND THIS IS
THE LAST THING I WANTED TO DO.

 

[TaurArian [MS-MVP]]

Perhaps explain the problem on this Newsgroup:

Windows XP Networking and the Web
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/...ft.public.windowsxp.network_web&lang=en&cr=US


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| So I am in REAL big trouble right now. like real big trouble
| I was trying to get my dad's computer networked onto our home network so he
| can print to our printer here. I was going into system properties,
| specifically the network tab, and seeing if there was some way I can just
| "add" a workgroup. I clicked this weird button called "Network ID" (I'm on XP
| Pro SP2). I clicked the radio button called "not on domain, blah
| blah"...clicked next...and I said to myself "oh crap" not good. Clicked out,
| restarted...
|
| ...and I couldn't log back on. In fact it lost its "home". It won't see a
| server like it usually does, and it won't locally log on to the computer.
| Safe mode didn't work..its like its lost everything.....
|
| PLEASE Help!!! THE ONLY SOLUTION I HAVE RIGHT NOW IS POSSIBLY PLUGGING THE
| COMPUTER BACK INTO ITS "HOME" (the office), and hopefully the computer will
| pick up all the network settings there..
|
| PLEASE HELP. HIGHLEVEL STRESS GOING ON, WITH A WEDDING AND ALL, AND THIS IS
| THE LAST THING I WANTED TO DO.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

By taking your father's computer off the domain, you broke
the mechanism that validated his logon account. His files are
still on the hard disk but they are currently inaccessible. You
must now get in touch with the administrator of the network
that the computer is normally connected to and ask him/her
for the name of a local account & password.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

So I am in REAL big trouble right now. like real big trouble
I was trying to get my dad's computer networked onto our home network so he
can print to our printer here. I was going into system properties,
specifically the network tab, and seeing if there was some way I can just
"add" a workgroup. I clicked this weird button called "Network ID" (I'm on XP
Pro SP2). I clicked the radio button called "not on domain, blah
blah"...clicked next...and I said to myself "oh crap" not good. Clicked out,
restarted...

...and I couldn't log back on. In fact it lost its "home". It won't see a
server like it usually does, and it won't locally log on to the computer.
Safe mode didn't work..its like its lost everything.....

PLEASE Help!!! THE ONLY SOLUTION I HAVE RIGHT NOW IS POSSIBLY PLUGGING THE
COMPUTER BACK INTO ITS "HOME" (the office), and hopefully the computer will
pick up all the network settings there..

PLEASE HELP. HIGHLEVEL STRESS GOING ON, WITH A WEDDING AND ALL, AND THIS IS
THE LAST THING I WANTED TO DO.

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 your father's 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).

At this point, the only thing your father can do is take the computer
back to his employer's IT department and throw himself on their mercy.
If he's lucky and has an understanding employer, he won't get dismissed
for letting his children play with company property.


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[Guest]

You can download an offline registry editor, and reset any local password,
find it here http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
In reference to taking off of the Domain, no BIGGY, when your father goes
back to work just take it in and have it re-joined to the domain.

Later

 

[Admiral Q]

You can download an offline registry editor, and reset any local password,
find it here http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/
In reference to taking off of the Domain, no BIGGY, when your father goes
back to work just take it in and have it re-joined to the domain.

Later

Depends on the company whether it is a "no biggy" or not - I've been at
companies that will just rejoin the Laptop to the domain, accept those
things happen when people have home networks they try to connect/print to
and there it stays - I've also been at companies that right up warnings
and/or pink slips for the employee's messing/changing things they deem
shouldn't be messed with - so it just depends.

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