Help Quick, Network problems,?

Question

I have an Ibm thinkpad for my work and they are set up under a domain, It runs XP Pro and I went in and added it to the Workgroup at my house to use wireless printing. I think it disabled the domain and after restarting i can no longer log into microsoft. I dont know how to fix it without logging on. Please help quick.

I cant get on the computer At all

Answer 1

If you switched it over to the workgroup, then you took it off the domain, and if you took it off the domain, then your domain username and password will no longer work. (Cached domain accounts will not work either) And, if you don't have a local user account, then you are in trouble.

Every PC has a LOCAL (workgroup) account named "Administrator". This account usually has a password set by the IT team who set up the PC.

The only thing that can be done now is either find someone who knows what the local admin password is, or hack the local admin account, change the password to say "Password1" and log in using that. But unless you are a domain administrator, you won't be able to get it back on the domain.

I'd suggest taking the laptop back to your IT people and let them fix it. If they are even semi-knowledgable, they will be able to get it back on the domain without losing a single file.

Answer 2

Yeppers, you can't have it be part of a domain and a workgroup at the same time. Next time, try enabling NetBIOS over TCP/IP, it will make the computers visible to each other.

If it's asking your to re-give the domain logon, then it still thinks it's talking to the domain, you just need to remember that domain and the user ID / password you were using. If it's just logging you onto the machine in the workgroup, go into Control Panel / system / Computer Name and try one of the choices at the bottom: Network Identification wizard, or Change... to re-join the domain.

The domain login info is usually cached locally, so if it's screwed up but you can still get into the machine, you may be able to delete it and force a reload... but I forget where it's stored.

Good luck.