W2K Prp SP4 Notebook Cannot add users or Otherwise Configure Computer Unless it's Connected to Netwo

[Mike]

We have a notebook computer w/ W2K Pro SP4 that was connected to the network
(joined domain) now we use it
to remotely connect to network by dial up and broadband. I cannot add
users or change passwords
unless the notebook is connected to the network. How can I add users w/o
connecting the notebook to the network?

We took two previously networked PCs to a remote location to be used
to connect to the network via broadband and VPN. The only way I could
administer them ( add users, change passwords) after they were at the remote
location was to remove them from the domain.

Than ks,

Mike

 

[Phillip Windell]

If you would just log in with the Local Administrator account it would be
fine. You have to change the third line of the login to the machine name
and use the Administrator account.

 

[Mike]

I do that now. I log on using the local admin acct, but it still will not
let me
add users. Replies with error message.


Mike

If you would just log in with the Local Administrator account it would be
fine. You have to change the third line of the login to the machine name
and use the Administrator account.


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

We have a notebook computer w/ W2K Pro SP4 that was connected to the network
(joined domain) now we use it
to remotely connect to network by dial up and broadband. I cannot add
users or change passwords
unless the notebook is connected to the network. How can I add users w/o
connecting the notebook to the network?

We took two previously networked PCs to a remote location to be used
to connect to the network via broadband and VPN. The only way I could
administer them ( add users, change passwords) after they were at the remote
location was to remove them from the domain.

Than ks,

Mike

 

[Phillip Windell]

I do that now. I log on using the local admin acct, but it still will not
let me
add users. Replies with error message.

Hmm....don't know then. It would be an OS issue and not a networking issue.
Maybe someone else here might have an idea or you could post in a Group
devoted to the OS itself.

 

[Mike]

I took a couple Dell Optiplexs w/ W2K Pro to a remote site where
I networked them to DSL router.switch and cvonnected to the main site
by VPN.
The only way I could administer the PCs was to remove them from the domain,
then I could set up local user accts, etc.

Mike

 

[Phillip Windell]

I have around a 100 machines here and can log in "locally" to any of them
irrelevant of the domain. I have never had to remove them from the domain
first. I don't know what you have going on over there.