Re: Help! No Local Administrator! :(

From: Yazmin Wickham (ywickham@NOSPAM.yazmin.net)
Date: 12/13/02 

From: "Yazmin Wickham" <ywickham@NOSPAM.yazmin.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:21:48 -0500

God must be smiling down on me today. The Administrator password that I
tried last night is now working.

Thank you all for your help.

"Yazmin Wickham" <ywickham@NOSPAM.yazmin.net> wrote in message
news:e$j#e0poCHA.2084@TK2MSFTNGP12...
> Thank you. S I have an Administrator, Guest, and the additional user
account
> I created. So this means that I just don't know the Administrator
password.
> I really need to get this computer back on the domain and I can't afford
to
> re-install the whole operating system.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get around this, or hack around it? I'm
> desperate. Have pity on my soul. :)
>
> "Pegasus" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message
> news:atbonr$104c$1@arachne.labyrinth.net.au...
> > AFAIK you cannot delete the local administrator's account.
> > It's still there, waiting for you to use the correct password.
> > Have you checked the output of the "net user" command?
> >
> >
> > "Yazmin Wickham" <ywickham@NOSPAM.yazmin.net> wrote in message
> > news:ulc3H#loCHA.1612@TK2MSFTNGP09...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm adding my Win 2000 workstation clients back to a restored domain
(we
> > had
> > > two hard drives crash last week) and I am just realizing that the
local
> > > administrator account that should have been on one of the workstations
> is
> > > not there! I have a local user account that I can log in with, but of
> > > course, since there was no local administrator account, I can't access
> > > anything in the control panel, or add the workstation back to the
> domain.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any solutions or hacks? I really don't want to have
to
> > > re-install Win 2000 on the workstation.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Yazmin
> > > St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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