Re: How can I change back to an offline Domain from a workgroup?

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From: Scott D. Pearson (scott.pearson_at_PearsonCTS.com)
Date: 04/03/04 

Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 07:13:48 GMT

I faced this same situation. I placed my pc into a Workgroup (thus removing
me from the Domain) and I was unable to rejoin the Domain later. Here is the
trick: You must have somebody with Admin privileges ON THE DOMAIN SERVER get
you back into the Domain.

My profile info was still on the Domain server and my pc, but with the Admin
password FOR THE DOMAIN SERVER ITSELF, I was unable to rejoin the Domain.

I sort of understand the logic behind that restriction but, geez, it was
frustrating to know that I had an account on the Domain Server yet I was not
allowed to log into it! But that's the way the Domain Server user account
security is set up.

So just realize that you can take yourself OUT of a Domain from your local
pc, but you can not put yourself back IN to the Domain unless you know the
Admin login password for the Domain Server.

Good luck.

"Egburt" <Egburt@Rowanhouse.Org.UK> wrote in message
news:406c5259$0$606$cc9e4d1f@news.dial.pipex.com...
> Thanks.
> I shall try copying the things over locally and overwriting the parts of
the
> local profile. As for going in through control panel, I can see my old
> profiles. They are listed as 'Umknown User' but when you click on them,
the
> copy button remains inactive. If you try to login with
> 'olddomainname\oldusername' you just get the same error message telling
you
> to check the domain name or user name. I have even tried,
> olddomainname\Unknown User but this just produces the same result. - not
> good :-( Any further ideas or are you sure copying the files over will
do?
> Which files do I need exactly?
>
>
> "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
> <lanwench@heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com> wrote in
message
> news:uOikdaAGEHA.1912@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Don't think you'll be able to log in to use your old cached domain
profile
> > now, since you've removed your computer from the domain. If you log in
> with
> > the local administrator account, do you still see your cached profile
info
> > in documents & settings? You can take ownership of them if they're there
> but
> > inaccessible....copy the data over to your new local profile folder or
> > wherever you want. I personally prefer c:\data for all locally stored
> files,
> > rather than the default folders.....also check in control panel | system
> for
> > your old profile, as well, and see if you can copy it to the new local
> > profile.
> >
> > DSL News wrote:
> > > Please help,
> > >
> > > I have been using a machine for two years that I used to use at work.
> > > I have always continued to login to the work domain even though there
> > > is no server. It simply used cashed settings. This has worked fine
> > > for 2 years. However, I have a few other machines in the house 98 and
> > > xp all running via cat 5 to a dsl router. I wanted to be able to
> > > connect to each other to share files, etc so I changed the 2K pro
> > > machine to a workgroup same as the others. I got the message welcome
> > > to the workgroup but still could not see any PCs. Also logging in in
> > > the workgroup I have lost my profile from the domain. Can I get this
> > > back to use in the workgroup? i.e. I have lost all my settings and
> > > email, etc.
> > >
> > > To get back to being able to work again, I attempted to change back
> > > to the domain but it attempts to find it and gives the error saying
> > > there is no such domain. How can I get it to use it's cashed
> > > settings, etc?
> > >
> > > Any help appreciated
> > >
> > > Charles
> > > cbs@dsl.pipex.com
> >
> >
>
>

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