Re: HELP! Resetting to a domain under Windows XP

Ethan wrote:

> To Anyone who can help:
>
> I have a laptop that was setup for a domain at work. I brought the
> laptop home and wanted to connect to my home LAN, which is relatively
> unsecure running on a workgroup called "workgroup". I went to "System"
> under the control panel and then chose the "Computer Name" tab, hit
> the "Change" button, and keyed in "Workgroup" under the workgroup tab.
> I was asked to key-in a username and password to authorize the change,
> so I entered my work username and password, and it was accepted. I got
> a message saying the system would need to reboot to effect the
> changes.
>
> The system rebooted, and now it won't accept any name or password
> combination I attempt. I also tried to just leave it blank, since none
> of the other computers on my home network require either. Nothing I
> have tried works.
>
> Is there a way to change the setting back without being able to log
> onto Windows? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!! Thanks!
>
You just disjoined your computer from the domain and now you can't log
in because you don't know the local administrator password. Take the
machine to your IT Dept. and be very humble and nice to them tomorrow.
They will rejoin your computer to the domain. There is no other way to
do this.

Then when you want to use it at home in the future, see the following:

Information from MVP Lanwench:
You don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources on it.
You shouldn't play with your laptop's network settings at all. Once
you've logged in using your domain account (using cached credentials),
and have an IP address on the home network, you can map drives, use
printers, whatnot, very easily - one way, in a command line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

More:

MS KB article about the Net Use command - http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj

Managing One Windows XP-based Laptop for the Office and Home by MVP
Charlie Russel
http://tinyurl.com/cpy9q

http://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm - MVP Hans-Georg Michna

Malke
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