Re: Cannot login to any account on Win XP Pro

Thanks a Mega. This certainly looks like my best option.

BTW, how do you un-join?

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Mrs. Kim A. Yoshiwara, Diamond Community School, Palm Bay, Florida


"nospam.com" wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005 15:31:03 -0700, "Mrs. Kim"
> <MrsKim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Hate to fess up.
> LOL! You must if you want answers to your problem.
>
> >First thing I noticed ... was that I was able to do the network login, but I
> >was unable to login to any local accounts (I also tried the Administrator
> >account.)
> >
> >So, I reset the computer on the server 2003. Then I could not login to the
> >network account.
> Once you reset the computer under the Users and Computers mgmt
> console, you will not be able to log in with a domain account. The
> way I do it is to log back in on the local machine and un-join it from
> the domain; then put the computer back on the domain. There might be
> another way, but this works for me.
>
> >I deleted the computer and re-added the computer. Still getting "User name,
> >password combination invalid".
>
> Have you try logging in with the local users?? Make sure at the login
> prompt, the log on to field is selected 'ComputerName (This Computer)'
>
> >I am thinking of booting to the OS CD and trying the repair function. What
> >do you think?
> I'm not sure the repair will fix your problem. You need some way to
> reset the Administrator account password. Try the below link to reset
> the administrator password. If you don't want to use the link, the
> other way is to reinstall the OS to reset the password.
>
> http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html
>
.

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