Re: Cannot login to Win2000, but username/pass weren't changed...

From: Roger Abell (mvpNOSpam_at_asu.edu)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 17:25:16 -0700

Once a machine is disjoined from a domain, domain accounts
can no longer be used to log into it. Only accounts defined on
the machine itself are then available.
If you are on the network local to the domain, you might have
permissions to rejoin it (if you were on that network when you
disjoined it). Otherwise, you need those that manage the domain
to resolve this for you. 

-- 
Roger Abell
Microsoft MVP (Windows  Security)
MCSE (W2k3,W2k,Nt4)  MCDBA
"javelin98" <javelin98@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93ACC9F8-00CA-4E4B-9DC9-72E523847D4A@microsoft.com...
> Hello! I may have broken my Windows 2000 access, it seems. I wanted to set
up
> an automatic logon so that I could dispense with entering my
> username/password everytime I turned the machine on (IBM Thinkpad T23).
> Somewhere on the Internet I found a DITY site saying that I could do this
by
> changing my Network Identification settings from Domain to Workgroup,
which I
> did. Now Windows won't recognize my password and says that my username and
> domain might be incorrect. But I can't change my domain without logging
in...
> so, does anyone know a way out of this catch-22 I've gotten myself into?
Is
> there some way I'm suppposed to combine my username and domain name when
> logging in as a Workgroup?  I know for certain I didn't change my
password,
> but nonetheless I can't login.  I'd really like to avoid taking my laptop
to
> a repair shop and having it formatted and reloaded, as there are important
> files on there that I don't want to lose.
>
> Thanks,
> Andreas

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