Re: Help! No Domain Drop Down after changing to HomePC Domain

From: Janet in Atlanta (jjgotlegs_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/08/03 

Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 06:25:34 -0800

I did exactly what you said, I changed it from a domain
to a workgroup thinking it would connect to my home
network that way (XP Desktop).

I have windows 2000 on my laptop. I don't know what the
local administrator password to my laptop is, I'm going
to have to go the password reset route because I don't
have access to that info.

Thanks for your help, and I will post when I get this
corrected.

BTW I am intrested in being able to log into both
compters to share files, printers, etc..that's what
started all this trouble! LOL I should have slept in!
<sigh>

Janet

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm wondering if maybe you changed your laptop from a
domain to logging in
>locally e.g. changed it from a domain to a workgroup.
If you selected your
>computer's name in the "domain" dropdown, then this is
the case.
>
>XP is not a domain or a domain controller. To have a
domain at home, you
>would need a windows 2000, 2003 or NT server set up as a
domain controller.
>Otherwise, you have to log in using local accounts on
each computer and
>manually set up and synchronize identical login IDs and
passwords yourself
>on other computers if you want to do file sharing
between multiple computers
>at home [and configure the computers to be in a
workgroup instead of a
>domain].
>
>No matter what the problem is, I would think that
knowing what the local
>Administrator ID and password is and using them to log
in locally should
>help. When you're logging into a domain, these accounts
are often never
>used, so it could be that you may never have known or
used these. Whoever
>installed Windows on your laptop should know what the
local admin ID and
>password is. Often the account name is Administrator.
>
>If you need to be able to rejoin the computer to your
work domain, you need
>to take the computer back to your work where the domain
is available, and
>have someone who is a domain administrator re-join the
computer [e.g. your
>helpdesk or network administrator at work].
>
>If the person that installed Windows [e.g. your helpdesk
at work] doesn't
>know, and you are never taking your computer back to
your work domain to log
>in, then there are password reset disks that can help.
There are some
>issues with using these on XP. See here:
>
>http://securityadmin.info/faq.htm#password
>
>I hope this helps.
>
>
>"Janet in Atlanta" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in message
>news:07ae01c3a5f7$5eeecf80$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> Please help what terrible thing I did!
>>
>> Trying to connect my work laptop to my new home network
>> (XP) I Changed the domain on my laptop to my new home
>> network domain thinking I could switch between the two.
>> It told me it could not remove my old domain and asked
me
>> to reboot. Now when I reboot, I can not get my domain
>> drop down box. When I try to log in using my old user
>> name and password it will not let me in. I tried a
>> thousand differnt things to get logged in including
using
>> the old domain name\user id, new doman\ user id and
>> password, NOTHING WORKS! Help!
>>
>> The sad part is now I realize I didn't have to do that
at
>> all because my home desktop can see my laptop...I just
>> can't get into the laptop to change my settings back to
>> the original, I'm in huge trouble if I don't
>> get this fixed pronto!
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your advice!
>>
>> Janet <sigh>
>
>
>.
>

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