Re: Help in logging on to the system

From: Ron Lowe (ron-msng_at_{d.e.l.e.t.e.}lowe-family.me.uk)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 17:30:22 -0000

"Valeria" <Valeria@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:5C4A9F4B-E845-47E8-836F-09BE6CA8F9E9@microsoft.com...
> Hi,
> I have posted this in the "XP Help and Support" group but maybe it is not
> the right group... and I am getting deperate for not having access to my
> laptop anymore!
> I wanted to connect my private computer working under XP to my office
> laptop
> also working under XP.
> What I did is changing the settings in my professional computer under
> "Computer" --> Properties --> "Computer Name" --> "Network ID" from
> professional (connected to a company network) to private.
>
> Now, when I start my laptop, I do not get the possibility to choose the
> network domain anymore, and when I fill in there my professional user ID
> and
> password I get a "wrong password" message... so I can't access the system
> to
> change the networking properties as they were before.
>
> Could you please let me know what I can do to log on again?
>
> Many thanks for your kind help!
>
> Best regards,
>
>
>
> --
> Valeria

Your domain logon is not valid on the PC which is no
longer a member of the domain ( as you have just discovered! )

You need to to know a local account on the PC to be able to log on locally.
Try logging on as Administrator, with no password.

If Administrator / blank does not work, you need to talk to your work admins
who may know the local administrator password.
Your work's domain admin will need access to this local admin account
anyway, in order to re-join you to the domain.

If no-one knows the local Administrator account password, then you're locked
out unless you re-set the Administrator password:
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Incidentally, there was no need to remove the machine
from the domain to access your non-domain machine.

Continue to log in with your domain credentials
( cached credentials makes this work );

Then map a network drive to the other machine, but choose the
option to 'connect using a different user name', and enter the username
in the form 'Other-pc-name\Username' along with the associated password. 

-- 
Best Regards,
Ron Lowe
MS-MVP Windows Networking

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