Re: Can't log in
From: Amanda (abstuckey@hotmail.com)
Date: 07/26/02
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From: "Amanda" <abstuckey@hotmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 10:42:25 -0700
I know this may sound stupid, but do you have an options
button at login. If so, when you press that, it should
reveal the domain. Also, It is possible to leave the
password blank in Win2K. Our helpdesk has done this many
times.
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>"Jim" <jsb@fcny.org> wrote in message
>>news:1d0c01c23446$83ad8f60$3aef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA09...
>>> I clicked "domain" instead of "workgroup" somewhere,
not
>>> knowing what I was doing and now it seems to want a
>>> password to let me login when I boot. Only I'd never
>set
>>>
>>> Other than removing my hard drive or doing a parallel
>>> intallation, what can I do?
>>
>>With Windows 2000 there is always a login ID and
>password, you just aren't
>>sure what it is. [Also I'm not aware of a password for
>the machine as a
>>whole in Windows 2000... Windows 2000 passwords to the
>best of my knowledge
>>are always associated with a login ID. You're positive
>you're running
>>Windows 2000?]
>I most certanly am. But I may not be describing things
>correctly. If there's always an id and password, then
the
>password had been the null string for I never typed one.
>Perhaps by a password for the machine as a whole, I meant
>a password for the domain. I don't understand domains so
>I'm not sure what the password I added was a password for.
>But neither of the 2 accounts on the machine had ever
>required typing in a password.
>
>>Anyways, the login ID is often administrator, unless you
>chose something
>>else. At the login screen, you should be able to click
>the button to reveal
>>additional options, which should allow you to change it
>from domain back to
>>workgroup. This is the first thing I would do... try
>logging into the local
>>workstation instead of the domain with the login ID
>administrator and trying
>>any password you might have chosen when you installed
>Windows. [The Windows
>>2000 install forces you to choose a password for the
>administrator account.]
>
>The only options is offers is "Login using dialup
>connection" and when I choose it I'm told there are no
>connections available to all users and that I must login
>first.
>
>>That fix password boot disk and parallel windows install
>is always the first
>>suggestion made in this newsgroup, but I'm not sure it's
>always the easiest.
>>
>
>The fix password boot disk will not boot on my machine.
>It goes into an infinite loop of "hdd interrupt lost."
>I have now installed a parallel WIN2000 on my disk. I
>tried using one of the tips from jsiinc suggesting I
>replace my original screen saver with cmd.exe, then boot
>the old installation and wait for the screensaver. I did
>that but no screen saver has come up. Instead it tries
to
>connect me every so often and gives me the cannot login
>error message I know so well. Incidently, the parallel
>installation accepted it when I left the admin password
>blank on install, so, yes, it prompts for one, but
doesn't
>require one.
>
>>You say you don't want to move the hard drive to another
>computer
>>temporarily. If the C: drive is NOT formatted in NTFS,
>
>Alas, it is NTFS!
>
>you can do try the
>>steps below by booting using a DOS boot floppy disk
>instead, like one
>>created on a Windows 98 machine]
>>http://groups.google.com/groups?
>q=windows+2000+password+forgot+OR+forgotten+
>>reset&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=%23aFcIUT%24%
>24GA.92%40cppssbbsa02.mi
>>crosoft.com&rnum=8
>>
>>[excerpt copied below]
>{w T C>1. Connect the harddisk
(forgotten Administrator
>password) as slave to
>>another computer (with W2k).
>>2. Boot-up as normal then goto Windows
>>3. Change to the directory %systemroot%\system32\config\
>and rename the
>>SAM.* files to something else.
>>4. Reconnect back the hardd
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