Re: Cannot login after changing from domain to workgroup

From: Dave (noone_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 04/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:37:32 -0000

you must take it back to your corporate IT people and beg them to put it
back on the domain. in the mean time if the domain login credentials are
cached on the machine you might be able to login using your old domain and
user name like: domain\username with your old company password.

"Frank Kanto" <kanto_2000@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:65f101c42e87$4a1e0300$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> My corporate laptop was on a domain. To try and transfer
> some files from a friend's computer, we thought to join
> the laptop to his home network. He had me switch from
> Domain to Workgroup. I think all I did was right-click
> MyComputer, Properties, then changed from the domain to my
> friend's workgroup -- didn't create any user accounts or
> set passwords or anything like that. The computer asked to
> restart, which I did, and now I can't log in at all. I
> normally log in as "Workstation only" which I think means
> you are logging into only to the laptop. I tried various
> username/passwords combinations, including administrator,
> guest, blank, and my usual corporate one. Nothing seems to
> work. I just get a "Failed to login to the Windows NT/2000
> Workstation. Make sure your username and connection
> information are correct..." I saw a similar thread where
> someone recommended removing the hard drive, hooking it up
> to another computer and then deleting the password file.
> Is that the only way? For my particular situation, is
> there anything else I can try? Any help is greatly
> appreciated. Thanks!
>
>

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