Guest Jeff Granger Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 (apologies for cross post but this looked like a more active group) Just got new company laptop that was set up to log on to a domain in the office. (ctrl-alt-del > user name + password). In trying to connect to my home network to transfer some files I changed the Domain to Workgroup under System > Computer Name > Rename, and put in the name of my home Workgroup. I didn't change anything else. Rebooted. Now I get to the ctrl-alt-del bit but by user name and password are not accepted. Any suggestions how I might get back in? Jeff
Guest John John Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 Re: Can't log in to Windows XP By joining the Workgroup you have effectively disjoined from the domain and the trust to the domain has been lost, you can no longer logon to the domain. You will have to ask the domain administrator to rejoin the laptop back to the domain. The only way to log back on to the machine now is with a local administrator account. Try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del twice at the logon screen and try to log on using the built in Administrator account, any network/IT administrator worth his salt should have set a password on the account but maybe the account has no password. There are ways of using the resources on your home network without having to join the workgroup, tell your IT person what you want to accomplish and they should be able to help you set this up. John Jeff Granger wrote: > (apologies for cross post but this looked like a more active group) > > Just got new company laptop that was set up to log on to a domain in the > office. (ctrl-alt-del > user name + password). In trying to connect to my > home network to transfer some files I changed the Domain to Workgroup under > System > Computer Name > Rename, and put in the name of my home Workgroup. I > didn't change anything else. > > Rebooted. Now I get to the ctrl-alt-del bit but by user name and password > are not accepted. > > Any suggestions how I might get back in? > > Jeff > >
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted September 22, 2007 Posted September 22, 2007 Re: Can't log in to Windows XP On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:06:52 +0100, "Jeff Granger" <jeff.granger@btclick.com> wrote: > (apologies for cross post but this looked like a more active group) I see you've already gotten an answer to your question, but I wanted to add a comment about crossposting. You did *not* crosspost; what you did is multipost. I don't want to give you a hard time, but for the future, please read my standard post about multi-posting: Please do not send the same message separately to more than one newsgroup (called multiposting). Doing so just fragments the thread, so someone who answers in one newsgroup doesn't get to see answers from others in another newsgroup. And for those who read all the newsgroups the message is multiposted to, they see the message multiple times instead of once (they would see it only once if you correctly crossposted instead). This wastes everyone's time, and gets you poorer help than you should get. If you must send the same message to more than one newsgroup, please do so by crossposting (but only to a *few* related newsgroups). Please see "What is the accepted way to share a message across multiple newsgroups?" at http://smjg.port5.com/faqs/usenet/xpost.html > Just got new company laptop that was set up to log on to a domain in the > office. (ctrl-alt-del > user name + password). In trying to connect to my > home network to transfer some files I changed the Domain to Workgroup under > System > Computer Name > Rename, and put in the name of my home Workgroup. I > didn't change anything else. > > Rebooted. Now I get to the ctrl-alt-del bit but by user name and password > are not accepted. > > Any suggestions how I might get back in? > > Jeff > -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
Guest Jeff Granger Posted September 25, 2007 Posted September 25, 2007 Re: Can't log in to Windows XP Thanks John "John John" <audetweld@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote in message news:uYjntTS$HHA.4476@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > By joining the Workgroup you have effectively disjoined from the domain > and the trust to the domain has been lost, you can no longer logon to the > domain. You will have to ask the domain administrator to rejoin the > laptop back to the domain. The only way to log back on to the machine now > is with a local administrator account. Try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del twice at > the logon screen and try to log on using the built in Administrator > account, any network/IT administrator worth his salt should have set a > password on the account but maybe the account has no password. There are > ways of using the resources on your home network without having to join > the workgroup, tell your IT person what you want to accomplish and they > should be able to help you set this up. > > John > > Jeff Granger wrote: > >> (apologies for cross post but this looked like a more active group) >> >> Just got new company laptop that was set up to log on to a domain in the >> office. (ctrl-alt-del > user name + password). In trying to connect to my >> home network to transfer some files I changed the Domain to Workgroup >> under >> System > Computer Name > Rename, and put in the name of my home >> Workgroup. I >> didn't change anything else. >> >> Rebooted. Now I get to the ctrl-alt-del bit but by user name and password >> are not accepted. >> >> Any suggestions how I might get back in? >> >> Jeff >>
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