Re: Unjoining from the domain

From: Doug Sherman [MVP] (dsherman_at_nospam.tampabay.rr.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:17:41 -0400

You can force an unjoin by joining a workgroup. Then delete the computer
account in Active Directory and join the domain.

Doug Sherman
MCSE Win2k/NT4.0, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Kevin" <kevin@unidata.ca> wrote in message
news:08bd01c47af7$c8192b60$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a question for all of you.
>
> Recently, one of my clients brought in a computer to have
> cleaned up. They had Spyware and Viruses (Netsky). I
> cleaned them off and got the pc working great.
>
> I then sent the PC back to them and they connected to the
> network fine; meaning they could get out to the internet
> and browse the network.
>
> The problem is this: One the XP machine I try to log in
> and it comes up with the error System could not log you
> on .... user/pass/domain error. The domain, pass, and
> username are all right. I have even tried to log in with
> the domain admin with same error.
>
> I log in to the pc with the local admin and try to unjoin
> the domain and get the following error:
>
> Computer name Changes
> The following error occurred attempting to unjoin the
> following domain "<our domain>":
> The revision level is unknown
>
> And also the users seem to have been lost from local XP
> machine.
>
> HELP ME PLEASE!!!! THANK YOU!!
>
> Kevin
>
>

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