XP Login Password (Domain vs Workgroup)

[robb]

I have a work laptop that normally connects to our
network using a domain. I was playing around and tried
to switch my laptop network over to a home network and
changed the network option from "domain" to "workgroup."
The computer said that I had to restart the computer and
I did. Now when I attempt to log in, my normal ID and
password don't work. I get the error message that
says, "are you sure that the domain name/workgroup is
correct." Well, I don't have an option to check that
out...my prompt only includes a username and password,
which I can't figure out. I don't have the admin
password and I can have a tech look at it next week, but
is there any way that I can switch it back to the
original domain so that I can log back into XP?

 

[Mark Dormer]

Not until you logon.
You will need the local administrator password.

Regards
Mark Dormer

 

[Kelly]

Hi Mark,

We really could use you here more often. ) Every time I read an AD post
(which is daily), I think of you. Where should these type of posts be
re-directed to?

 

[Ruben]

I have a work laptop that normally connects to our
network using a domain. I was playing around and tried
to switch my laptop network over to a home network and
changed the network option from "domain" to "workgroup."
The computer said that I had to restart the computer and
I did. Now when I attempt to log in, my normal ID and
password don't work. I get the error message that
says, "are you sure that the domain name/workgroup is
correct." Well, I don't have an option to check that
out...my prompt only includes a username and password,
which I can't figure out. I don't have the admin
password and I can have a tech look at it next week, but
is there any way that I can switch it back to the
original domain so that I can log back into XP?

When a computer is used on a domain, it can have two types of user
accounts: local and domain. Your account must have been a domain account,
and as such required the computer to be joined to a domain for user
authentication (when the laptop is unplugged from the network, it uses
cached credentials to authenticate the domain user account). If the
domain user account was "jsmith" it is as though Windows sees the account
as "jsmith on ABCDomain". When you removed the computer from the domain,
you no longer had access to the "jsmith on ABCDomain" account, and you
were actually trying to log on as either "jsmith on Workgroup" or "jsmith
Local Account", and I'm guessing that neither of those accounts exist in
Windows User Profiles. So unless you have a local admin login, you will
not be able to log onto the computer to make changes (create accounts or
rejoin the domain). Sounds like you will be waiting for the tech next
week. <g>

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

By changing the computer from the domain to a workgroup, you have
removed the "trust relationship" between the domain and the machine.
In doing so, you have also rendered any cached 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).


Bruce Chambers
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[NobodyMan]

Greetings --

By changing the computer from the domain to a workgroup, you have
removed the "trust relationship" between the domain and the machine.
In doing so, you have also rendered any cached 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).


Bruce Chambers

As said by Dilbert once: "There's nothing more dangerous than a
resourceful idiot." Sorry to the OP, there's no insult intended
directly at you.

So many problems with domain/workgroup issues voiced here are of this
variety. I make sure our new folks get oriented to leave domain
settings alone. After we explain the problems they may have, we
seldom get this problem to fix.

 

[Mark Dormer]

Hi Kelly,

I think they are fine in this group, though if they are really AD then
theres the windows.server.active_directory group

I wish I had more time to be here, I love doing this stuff.

Regards
Mark Dormer