Re: Oops - How to recover Administrator password?

From: Neko- (neko_at_xs4all.nl)
Date: 09/05/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:44:21 +0200

>Yes. Let me explain. This is a small network, just 5 computers in my home
>and frankly, it's never come up that I had to "reset" any passwords, so I've
>never done it before. I looked around in the Users and Domains tool on the
>server but didn't see an option to reset a user's password. That's clearly
>what I'd like to do, I'll go hunt for it. Sorry for the dumb question, and
>thanks for the response!
>
>Bob
>
Right click on the user you want to reset the password for... Select
'Reset Password'

If you do that with an account that has full administrative rights you
shouldn't have any problems doing that for any account on the domain
(including the Administrator account).

Cheers, Neko-

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