Re: Help - I tried to define a home network and now I can't logon!!!
From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou@attbi.com)
Date: 05/25/02
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From: "Steven L Umbach" <n9rou@attbi.com> Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 01:29:30 GMT
From what you described I do not see anything that would have led
to a password change, apparently you were trying to create a new network
connection which you probably did not need to do anyhow if both your
computers already have nic cards properly installed in them. My guess is
your problem is that you are trying to log onto the local machine instead of
the domain. Try doing the control-alt-delete again to bring up the logon
screen. In the lower right hand corner there should be an options box that
you may need to select. You should normally have the option to log onto the
domain or the local machine (whatever the computer name is) by clicking on
the little down arrow in the box next to "log onto". If that option is not
there then you need to click the options box to allow multiple logon
options. It sounds like you normally log onto the domain - not the local
machine. There probably is a password to log onto the local machine that was
put there when Windows 2000 was installed onto your laptop. You probably can
still log onto your machine using domain logon even though you are not
connected to the domain because of cached log on credentials - but it is
possible it will not work depending on how policies were set on your domain
by the administrators and will not work until you boot the machine connected
to your corporate network domain. Even if your domain password somehow got
screwed up an admin at work would be able to reset it. Good luck. --- Steve
<rrnospamplease@richyrnospamplease.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:abmteug42un1q2vohv4i0sh7934m6ol8eu@4ax.com...
> Help! I'm new to Windows 2000 Professional (it is my work laptop).
> It is configured to a corporate network so normally when i log on at
> boot time it asks for a userid, domain and password. My userid is
> defined as Admin.
>
> All was working well until i decided it would be nice to connect my
> laptop to my home pc. I noticed after left clicking on My Computer
> and selecting Propoerties that there was an option to define a new
> network connection (can't remember the exact words). It was selected
> above the option to change the computer name I think. I selected the
> option to define the new network connection and remember stating that
> it was to be a connection to a home pc and not to a corporate network.
> I then had to define how to connect. I choose the (drop down)
> Administrator login but did not specify a password. It then rebooted
> the pc and presented me with a 'logon to windows' box. It wanted a
> user name and password - but no domain. It had already filled the
> username in with Administrator. I didn't put anything in the password
> box and this caused the logon to fail. I got a message telling me to
> check the password. This had me confused as I hadn't specified a
> password.
>
> I tried my normal logon and password and this failed too.
>
> I now have no way of logging into Windows 2000 Professional. This is
> scary. I'm sure I've done something really stupid here. Anyone have
> any ideas how I can dig myself out of this mess? Any help would be
> much appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Richard
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