Re: Cannot Logon Locally, Can I create domain?

From: F N Guy (xclntrated@aol.com)
Date: 04/29/02 

From: xclntrated@aol.com (F N Guy)
Date: 29 Apr 2002 13:52:24 -0700

phirewall <me@here.com> wrote in message news:<ucp65edjun2ic7@corp.supernews.com>...

> Creating a domain with the same name will not work, as NT domains have
> unique SIDs. Your computer doesn't necessarily care what the name of the
> domain is, just that the SID matches.

Ok I understand the SID issue - makes sense. The Samba avenure seems
quite complicated but if that is recommended I will try it for the
experience.

I recovered the p/w using the Linux boot disk... on another thread I
reported this about the logon procedure and not being able to type in
the domain box:

http://discussions.virtualdr.com/Forum3/HTML/009831.html

What about this?
> You could try the logon.scr trick (using a boot disk if FAT or parallel install if NTFS) to run net user or usrmgr...
> http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/atips262.shtml

Thanks for your info/opinions.