logon denied

[Bill Fleenor]

I have a computer that has been sitting in my office for over ten years and
I only keep it to access old data still archived on a Jazz drive.

I booted it up today and set it up so I could access it over my local
network and copy some of the Jazz drives to a CD burner on another machine.

It asked me to reboot and after doing so it now requires a user name and
password. I have never had the computer set up with user name and password
requirements so I don't have any to enter.

How can I still use the machine?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I have a computer that has been sitting in my office for over ten years and
I only keep it to access old data still archived on a Jazz drive.

I booted it up today and set it up so I could access it over my local
network and copy some of the Jazz drives to a CD burner on another machine.

It asked me to reboot and after doing so it now requires a user name and
password. I have never had the computer set up with user name and password
requirements so I don't have any to enter.

How can I still use the machine?

You posted your query in a Win2000 newsgroup, but Win2000
was not around ten years ago. Please state your operating
system. If it is Win95 then I recommend you repost in a
Win9x newsgroup.

 

[Bill Fleenor]

It has had Win 2000 since the earliest beta and has never had a logon
username or password associated with it.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If it has Win2000 on it then it cannot be from 1995,
as you suggest. In those days people had WinNT 3.5
or perhaps WinNT 4.0. Have a look at the date of
the C:\WinNT folder!

All WinNT/Win2000 have user names and passwords.
Only Win9x OSs could be run without them. Boot the
machine with a boot disk from the link below, then
reset the password for the administrator account to
a blank.
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html