Re: Domain to Workgroup

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 23:59:46 GMT

Yep. You need to be a local administrator to remove your computer from the domain.
You can use Group Policy to try and hide the control panel applet for System
Properties and remove it from the context menu for My Computer which may slow down
some of those whose curiosity gets in their way. Also post a logon message for those
users - $50 to rejoin your computer to our domain. --- Steve

"Phillip Windell" <@.> wrote in message news:OY$BFIrjEHA.1268@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>I seem to see a couple of these a day in the group. Am I correct in thinking
> that if the user wasn't given local Admin priviledges they would be not able
> to change the domain membership in the first place? So if their Admins
> would not give them local Admin priviledges they would stop this from
> happeing in the first place? I'm thinking about this because there are a
> few situations where I have had to give Domain User local Admin priviledges
> due to a barage of softwareware updates from a couple vendors that won't
> update properly if the user isn't this way.
>
> There are a few laptops with users who have home networks and I'm just
> "waiting" for one of them to do this :-).
>
>
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> Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
> www.wandtv.com
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> "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
> news:%232RpJYhjEHA.704@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> You'll need to check with your domain administrators to get the computer
>> rejoined to the domain, and then work with them to get a logon that will
>> work off the domain.
>>
>> --
>> Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] rgharper@email.com
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>> "Dan" <Swimmerim21@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:00b601c48def$bd3e1880$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> >I have a PC with Win 2000 Pro. I changed the network
>> > from domain to workgroup and now i can't log on to the
>> > system. I can't get by the password screen to undo my
>> > error. There is a command prompt that flashes quickly as
>> > I start. How can I disable the command prompt or get
>> > into Windows?
>>
>>
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