Re: Wrong Domain preventing login to laptop
- From: Bruce Chambers <bchambers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 May 2006 08:49:28 -0600
Will the Irritated wrote:
Please help me. I have completely screwed up my work computer (oops). I was trying to access files on my home network, so I changed the computer from my work Domain to my home Workgroup. Well, on logon, Mr. Craptastic-Gateway wasn't so happy. And the convenient little Domain selector-jobby disappeared. I apologize if my language is too technical (chuckle).
Thanks bundles for any help. I'd really like to avoid admitting this level of idiocy to the IT guys on Tuesday.
By changing the computer from the domain to a workgroup, you have destroyed the trust between the domain and the machine. In doing so, you have also rendered your domain login credentials as invalid. You need to be physically connected to the domain network, you need to have administrative privileges to the workstation, and you 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 laptop to your company's IT department for repairs. I do hope that your employer is of the understanding and forgiving variety. In many companies, your employment would be summarily terminated for altering, 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 laptop 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 attempt 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 transfer files from the your computer to the laptop.
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