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

From: javelin98 (javelin98_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:49:04 -0800

Ouch. Problem is that I bought this laptop from my university's surplus
property office, so I can't connect to a network in any way at all and the IT
guys have washed their hands of it. I've just always had to login before
using it and I was trying to find a way to skip that step when I started this
trouble. Is there no way to fix this?

Thanks,
Andreas

"Roger Abell" wrote:

> 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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