RE: change from Domain to Workgroup to Domain

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From: CD (CD_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:25:08 -0700

Unless you have a local user account setup with admin rights (or rights to
the files), I can't think of any other way to do it. There may be some
'hacker' tool that would let you, but I don't know of any.

"shaase" wrote:

> I got suckered into fixing something.
>
> We have a laptop running Win XP Pro SP2 that was originally networked to a
> domain at the motherbase. The laptop user came over to a friend's company
> and for some reason switched over to the workgroup there. The laptop user
> now needs to connect back to the domain account to access files in the client
> side cache (csc) (for offline file usage). For some reason, we can't access
> these offline files from any local account. We get this "This file could not
> be found" error while trying to open any given file. The real crock is that
> you can see every single file within the Offline Files Folder. You just
> can't open them or copy them somewhere else!!!
>
> Is there a way to trick the laptop to think that it is still part of the
> original domain? Attempts at switching from the workgroup to the domain fail
> with that "A domain controller for the domain could not be contacted" error.
> O ya, the motherbase is in Australia and the laptop is in Michigan.
>
> Thanx in advance!
>
> SKH

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