Logging in after computer has been disjointed from Domain

[Liliana]

I changed a Win 2000 computer from a network domain to a
workgroup. Now, I cannot login using a regular network
user and do not have any other account to use.
Furthermore, the administrator account/password in that
computer is not known.

Do you know of any mean to startup that computer and
reset its original attachment to a domain? Or how to get
the administrator account/password of that workstation?

 

[Dave]

to get it back on the domain take it back to the IT admins and beg them to
join it back for you. anything else is just hacking.

 

[Liliana]

I already begged IT support to do so.
However, they do not even know the account/password for
the administrator user in that machine. The only solution
they have given me is to re-image that machine, which
would destroy the data in that computer.

Any other suggestion?

 

[Dave]

if you plug it back in on the original network you can login with a domain
admin password, hopefully they know that. they will just have to enter the
username as domain\username to login then they should be able to rejoin it
to the domain. maybe you need a new IT department.

 

[Madhur Ahuja]

I already begged IT support to do so.
However, they do not even know the account/password for
the administrator user in that machine. The only solution
they have given me is to re-image that machine, which
would destroy the data in that computer.

Any other suggestion?

Hello

You might try to reset the local Administrator
password with one of the methods mentioned here:

http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpassword/bootdisk.html

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Your IT support should know how to recover your data files before a reimage. All they
have to do is put the drive in another computer and copy them or you could do that
yourself.. --- Steve

I already begged IT support to do so.
However, they do not even know the account/password for
the administrator user in that machine. The only solution
they have given me is to re-image that machine, which
would destroy the data in that computer.

Any other suggestion?

Hello

You might try to reset the local Administrator
password with one of the methods mentioned here:

http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpassword/bootdisk.html


--
Madhur Ahuja [madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com]

Homepage & other stuff
http://madhur.netfirms.com

 

[Phillip Windell]

Yea, for that matter they can take a new image of the machine and open the
image in Ghost Explorer and get whatever they want from it right out of the
image. I do it all the time, nothing is safe from me >:-{}

It is already kind of sad that the IT Dept themselves don't even know the
local Admin password,...makes you wonder how many other things they don't
know.

--

Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com

Your IT support should know how to recover your data files before a reimage. All they
have to do is put the drive in another computer and copy them or you could do that
yourself.. --- Steve

I already begged IT support to do so.
However, they do not even know the account/password for
the administrator user in that machine. The only solution
they have given me is to re-image that machine, which
would destroy the data in that computer.

Any other suggestion?
-----Original Message-----
to get it back on the domain take it back to the IT admins and beg
them to join it back for you. anything else is just hacking.

I changed a Win 2000 computer from a network domain to a
workgroup. Now, I cannot login using a regular network
user and do not have any other account to use.
Furthermore, the administrator account/password in that
computer is not known.

Do you know of any mean to startup that computer and
reset its original attachment to a domain? Or how to get
the administrator account/password of that workstation?




.

Hello

You might try to reset the local Administrator
password with one of the methods mentioned here:

http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpassword/bootdisk.html


--
Madhur Ahuja [madhur<underscore>ahuja<at>yahoo<dot>com]

Homepage & other stuff
http://madhur.netfirms.com