Re: HELP locked out of xp professionsal

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Ok thanks! I am not the owner of the computer, My friends dad is and he also
owns the company so I doubt he'll get fired, he didn't want to join his home
network he did that he wanted to have his computer appear as a workgroup
computer so he could share pictures over the network. He's taking it in
tomorow and I instructed him he needed to have the guy who set it up input
the administrator password and login and re-configure it. I hope i instructed
him correctly I will let you know if they still can't get it to work,
THANKS!!!!

"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

maxatv wrote:
My laptop was set to do the ctrl+alt+delete login and so whenever it turns on
i use my work login and get on, but while at home i wanted the computer to
show up on the network here so i googled and found to change the network id
under control panel/system/computer name/network id and I did this and now
i'm locked out of the computer and have no idea what to do PLEASE PLEASE
PLEASE help


By changing the computer from the domain to a workgroup, you
destroyed the trust relationship between the domain and the machine. In
doing so, you've also rendered your domain login credentials as invalid.
You'll need to be physically connected to the domain network, you'll
need to have administrative privileges to the workstation, and you'll
need to have sufficient privileges on the domain. Then you can add the
machine back on to the domain, after having first deleted the computer's
old domain account (unless you've also renamed the computer).

Take the computer to your company's IT department for repairs. I do
hope that your employer is of the understanding and forgiving variety.
In many companies, if the computer is company property, your employment
could be summarily terminated for your attempting to alter its
configuration in this way, and thereby rendering useless, company property.

This isn't entirely your fault, though. A lot of responsibility
rests squarely upon the shoulders of the network administrator. You
see, if the computer had been properly configured, your account would
not have had sufficient privileges to remove the computer from the
domain in the first place. Clearly, you lack the requisite knowledge to
be properly entitled to full administrative privileges on the computer,
or you would have known better than to do what you did. You would also
have known that removing the computer from the domain and joining your
workgroup would not be necessary in order for you to connect the laptop
to your home network.



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