Re: Cannot Log in

Shenan

Thank you for your reply.

Unfortunately I do not have access to assistance at work as I was laid off
some months ago. My laptop was part of the severance.

I have tried to log in as admin as I have the admin name and password and am
having no luck there either.

Do I need to preface or use the newly established workgroup name to be able
to log in as admin? For instance admin\Home? Or do I need to use the old
domain name in some manner?

Yes, and I realize what I did was dumb and I am dangerous and should not
play with loaded guns.

Thank you again for your assistance.
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Thanks
OzDangerous


"Shenan Stanley" wrote:

OzDangerous wrote:
I set up a workgroup on my laptop called 'Home'. The dialogue box
asked me to name the laptop and I called it Jerrys-laptop. The
dialogue box continued to add the domain 'corp' to the laptop name.

I was asked if I wanted to delete the user, me from the domain and
I said yes, I was asked what authority I had to delete the user and
I typed my user name and password as I have admin privleges.

The dialogue box said that I would have to reboot for the changes
to take effect which I did.

Now I cannot log in either on my account or on the admin account.
I am locked out.

Any suggestions?

What you have just described doing is removing a system from a domain and
putting it in a workgroup. You were obviously using a domain-based account.
That account is no longer valid (although its files are likely still on the
system.)

Now - what you should do is take your computer back to your technical people
at work/where they support it and tell them two things:

1) Please log in as a local administrative user and join this system back to
the proper domain.
2) Please remove my administrative rights so this does not happen again.

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Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
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