Re: Joined workgroup, now login doesn't work

ruger3717 wrote:

I was trying to use a shared printer so I added my laptop (XP pro) to
the
workgroup. After restart, I can no longer log on to my laptop. It
doesn't
accept my username and password anymore. How do I get back on my
laptop?

You haven't provided much information, but I'm going to guess that you
had a laptop that was a member of a domain at work and you wanted to
use the printer at home. So you changed the domain membership to your
home workgroup, breaking the domain trust completely. You can't log in
any more with your work username/password because your laptop is no
longer a member of the domain.

You need to take the laptop to work and have your IT Dept. rejoin it to
the domain. I'll give you ways of using your home network resources
with your domain-member laptop, but you should definitely check with
your IT Dept. first because they may have an opinion about you doing
this.

Per 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>

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

Also see:

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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