Re: Cannot log in to Windows

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/08/04 

Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 20:19:05 -0500

In news:886101c40492$ea244b80$a501280a@phx.gbl,
anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
posted their thoughts, then I offered mine
>> -----Original Message-----
>> In news:0b2401c40417$a736c580$7d02280a@phx.gbl,
>> Layne <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> posted their thoughts,
>> then I offered mine
>>> I set up a wireless router and the configuration somehow
>>> erased my password to log in to Windows at start-up. Does
>>> anyone have a suggestion as to how to fix this?
>>
>> Do you mean your domain account or the local account?
>>
>> Is this on a DC or a member server or a client member or a stand
>> alone client?
>>
>> What version of Windows?
>>
>> Also, with all due respect, I'm not undertanding how setting up a
>> router config (wireless or not) will alter your Windows settings,
>> domain or stand alone. Something else must have been changed in
>> WIndows or the domain during that time.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Ace
>>
>> Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.
>>
>> Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
>> Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
>> --
>> =================================
>>
>
>
> I'm not sure if it's domain or local account. All that I
> know is that when I boot my computer, I can't do anything
> because I don't have the correct password.
>
> I do receive information from a server, but I don't see
> how I can't even get access to this computer.
>
> I am using Window 2000 Professional.
>
> I agree that setting up a router would interfere, but that
> is what I did before all this happened.

It's easy to tell whether logging in to a domain or the local machine. This
is actually rudimentary network basics. Are you an admin?

In the logon box, there's 3 sections:
1 username
2 password
3 domainname or machinename

In the 3rd box, what shows up? Your machine name or the domain name?

And I never said that setting up a router would interfere. What I said was
that it can't, unless you typoed. 

-- 
Regards,
Ace
Please direct all replies to the newsgroup so all can benefit.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties.
Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
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