Re: Still trying to remove W2K PC from NT4 Domain...

Are you a Saint?

You have the patience of one ;^)

Saint Pegasus...has a ring to it don't you think?

OK...have now created a new user account from the DOS prompt and all seems
OK.

I wonder why I was unable to do that from Control Panel?

Just to be absolutely sure on this one as I don't wish to hound you any more
than necessary(!) but I now need to replace any occurrence of the newly
created user (Pheasant) with that of Administrator?

There is nothing under ProfileList directly but there a couple of entries
looking like S-1-5-21-loads of numbers where one of the strings is
ProfileImagePath which reads %SystemDrive%\Documents and
Settings\Administrator so I guess this where it needs to be modified?

I guess at this stage now I have a new user created I could in fact logon as
neither Pheasant or Administrator (Domain) and logon as the local
Administrator and just copy the entire contents of Administrator (Domain) to
Pheasant?

Would that also work?

Just trying to understand how it all ties together...

Thanks again Pegasus - your help is much appreciated.

Kind regards,
-=pp=-


"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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See below.

"Pheasant Plucker®" <pheasant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks again for the quick reply Pegasus!

I'm afraid you're going to have to be patient with me - I must be a
complete
doofus...

And this is a simple way <ducking>

1. Even I can do this one! ;^)

In 2. & 4. below you quote;
"Type this command in a Command Prompt and make a
of the output. Let's call it "X".

What exactly does "make a of the output" mean?

I guess you mean make a note of the output?

Yes. The verb got lost in cyberspace.

In my example on the HOME domain this will be C:\Documents and
Settings\Administrator
When I log on locally it changes to Administrator.ABIT

3. I am unable to log on locally under my preferred account name as it
recognises nothing but Administrator.
I can't add/create a new user from Control Panel/Users and Paswords
either
:-(

Create a user from the Prompt while logged on as domain admin:
net user Pheasant /add
net localgroup administrators Pheasant /add

You did reply to me last time...I'm not usually this stupid and I
appreciate
your patience ;^)

You're welcome.

Kind regards,
-=pp=-


"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There are several ways of doing this. Here is a simple one:
1. Log on to the domain under your normal account.
2. Type this command in a Command Prompt and make a
of the output. Let's call it "X".
set userprofile
3. Log on locally under the preferred account name.
4. Type this command in a Command Prompt and make a
of the output. Let's call it "Y".
set userprofile
5. Run regedit.
6. Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList:
7. Change every occurrence of Y to X.
8. Reboot, then repeat Step 3.

You should now have your preferred domain profile while
logged on locally. Time to take the machine off the domain!











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