Re: workgroup logon pasword now invalid

From: Lanwench [MVP - Exchange] (lanwench_at_heybuddy.donotsendme.unsolicitedmail.atyahoo.com)
Date: 11/29/03


Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 17:43:17 -0500

You'll need to know the local admin login and password, but even if you know
that, you're going to have to bring the laptop back to work to ask the
sysadmin to add it back to the domain.

Next time, don't change your network settings - you didn't need to, to
access your home workgroup.

anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com wrote:
> I changed my work laptop PC from a domain logon to a
> workgroup logon so that I could join and use
> resources on my home network. The laptop
> now prompts for user id and password and does not
> provide what was the optional domain. When I
> provide the password that previously logged the computer
> on both locally and to the domain when I had work network
> connectivity, I am informed that the password is invalid.
> I tried supplying the machine name and user id in the
> user id field to no avail.



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