Re: Help! No Domain Drop Down after changing to HomePC Domain
From: Karl Levinson [x y] mvp (levinson_k_at_despammed.com)
Date: 11/09/03
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Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 19:34:27 -0500
You need to know a local administrator ID and password on the computer. If
you don't know it, call the person who installed Windows, or your helpdesk,
or use a password reset disk:
http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#password
To rejoin the domain, you then have to be plugged into the domain and type
in a Domain administrator name and password.
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:005401c3a630$8acb0db0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello Janet,
>
> could you fix the problem?
>
> The same thing is happening to me on WIndows 2000. I
> played with the settings (going from "Domain"
> to "Workgroup") on my laptop and now I can no longer log-
> on.
>
> If you have solved the problem, I would be really
> interested in knowing how.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Bruno
> >-----Original Message-----
> >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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