UNWANTED DOMAIN

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Can someone please tell me "How To" delete an unwanted domain off my PC.
My problem is I joined a domain at my workplace before I added the PC to my
workgroup at home.
The workgroup is more important right now.

Please Help......................
 
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SAlders said:
Can someone please tell me "How To" delete an unwanted domain off my
PC. My problem is I joined a domain at my workplace before I added
the PC to my workgroup at home.
The workgroup is more important right now.

Please Help......................
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Make sure you know the local admin name and password before you do anything
.....then you can disjoin the computer from the domain. You do this in your
network connections | advanced menu item, change....

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>
 
Control Panel > System > Computer Name tab.

Press the Change button.

Enter a value in the Workgroup field and tick the box by it.

You might be asked for the Adminstrator password, if you are a limited user.

Note that this will mean you can no longer log-on as the user-account you
had under the domain, so make sure you know the name/password for a local
account.

The side-effect will be that all of your settings change, plus you will be
using a different My Documents folder, Desktop, etc. You will have to copy
over any files you need from the domain profile.
 
The "Change" button and the " Network ID" are both unavailable because of the
Domain being in place.
Any suggestions?

Thanks Buddy
 
can you tell me exactly how to type this at the command line?
I'm a little green at this.
I really appreciate your help

Thanks
 
SAlders said:
The "Change" button and the " Network ID" are both unavailable because
of the Domain being in place.
Any suggestions?
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You have to log on as local administrator. Make sure you know the local
administrator password!

Malke
 
Start | Run | CMD | The window the just popped up is what he was talking
about.
can you tell me exactly how to type this at the command line?
I'm a little green at this.
I really appreciate your help

Thanks

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Joe,
I know how to get to the command prompt, the problem is I don't know exactly
what to type once I get there. I kinda need the following broken down into
layman's terms.

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username
 
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SAlders said:
Joe,
I know how to get to the command prompt, the problem is I don't know
exactly what to type once I get there. I kinda need the following
broken down into layman's terms.

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username
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Right. Did you try typing that (making the appropriate changes for computer
name, share name, and username)?
 
Does the "x" stand for the drive letter?
\\computername = the name on the PC which I'm trying to access.
\sharename = the shared file on that PC. ie; (mydocs)
/user:computername = ????????
\username = which pc ??????
 
net use
x: = drive letter you are assigning to this share
\\computername = the name of the computer you are connecting to
\sharename = The name of the share on the computer you are connecting to
/user:computername = the name of the computer you are connecting to
\username = a user name that exists on the computer you are connecting to

One last thing you can also include the password for the user name if
you type it after the /user switch & make sure you have 2, that's two
spaces after the user name, but before the password. An example would
be "user password" (this is assuming the user name is user & the
password is password). Please don't use the user name of "user" or a
password of "password", as they are both considered insecure & a very
bad idea.
Does the "x" stand for the drive letter?
\\computername = the name on the PC which I'm trying to access.
\sharename = the shared file on that PC. ie; (mydocs)
/user:computername = ????????
\username = which pc ??????
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