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 19:34:46 -0500
PS don't feel bad, I've even made this mistake myself. It's common.
"Janet in Atlanta" <jjgotlegs@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> 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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