Re: Deleted computer account

From: ptwilliams (ptw2001_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 17:50:34 +0100

If you don't have a backup and the account has been deleted from the domain,
boot the workstation up offline, logon as a local administrator and add the
machine to a workgroup. Reboot it back online and join it to the domain. 

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Paul Williams
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"ramblreb" <ramblreb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EA7C7F99-9F76-4D91-B6E3-93C62F348354@microsoft.com...
The tape backup device has been down for some time now, lack of funds, so no
I dont have a backup, I wish I did.
Jim
"Dave Shaw [MVP]" wrote:
> Very simple question.  Do you have a recent backup?
>
> Why don't you simply restore the server from a good backup and dispense
with
> all the angst?
>
> -ds
>
>
> "ramblreb" <ramblreb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EB282B02-5B46-4443-8E5C-E6458FC23F2B@microsoft.com...
> > FYI
> >
> > I am running a one server LAN, it is my PDC, DHCP, DNS and WINS server.
> >
> > Jim
> >
> >
> > "Brian Desmond [MVP]" wrote:
> >
> >> Jim,
> >>
> >> This sounds like it might be a DNS issue on the workstation, have you
> >> tried
> >> running netdiag on it and making sure its pointed at your DCs? Are you
> >> logged in as a local admin?
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> -- 
> >> Brian Desmond
> >> Windows Server MVP
> >> desmondb@payton.cps.k12.il.us
> >>
> >> http://www.briandesmond.com
> >>
> >>
> >> "ramblreb" <ramblreb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:EC93DFE6-0733-4802-BD25-5C30F33572A6@microsoft.com...
> >> > I deleted a computer account from AD by mistake while that computer
was
> >> signed on to the domain. Now I cant get that machine back on the
domain.
> >> I
> >> have tried everything I can think of, adding it back in AD, running
> >> NETDOM
> >> from the workstation in question, etc. Nothing works, from the
> >> workstation I
> >> cant leave or join the domain (access Denied). With NETDOM I get "the
> >> machine account password for the local machine could not be reset. The
> >> specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted". Am I
> >> going to have to reformat this workstation to get it back on the
domain?
> >> Any
> >> help would be great!
> >> >
> >> > Jim
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>

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