Can't login

From: Garry Schaffel (schaffel@focus.ca)
Date: 02/26/03 

From: "Garry Schaffel" <schaffel@focus.ca>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 13:25:38 -0800

What I was doing:
  Stupidly and not really paying attention to what I was
doing, I was changing the DOMAIN name of one of our
computers. Not thinking, I first set it to a workgroup,
and then rebooted and was going to login and reset to a
DOMAIN (aka how you change a name on a W2K workstation).

Problem:
  For some odd reason, that I don't know. The
ADMINISTRATOR account on the workstation does not have
the password that I give ALL my administrator accounts.
So now I can't log into the computer to put it back on
the DOMAIN.

Question:
  Is there a way to reset that password or something that
will allow me into that computer?

Any assistance would be nice.

Thanks
Garry

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