Re: cant login to domain

From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 07/03/05 

Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 01:26:18 -0500

Windows 2000 always has a local account enabled called the built in
administrator account. Of course you need to know the password for it or use
a utility to reset the password to it which requires that you have full
physical access to the computer. I would also assume that at some point in
time you need to replace the network card and if you can replace the card
with the same model or a Plug and Play nic card you probably will be able to
logon to the domain after such. The link below will help if you find you
need to reset the built in administrator account. You could also place the
hard drive in another computer as a secondary hard drive if you primarily
just need to access data ASAP unless the data is encrypted with EFS. Also
by default Windows 2000 has cached logons to the domain enabled so it may be
worth it to try and logon as a user who has previously logged onto that
computer. --- Steve

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

"somya" <somya@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D84484D-86A2-4F9E-84AB-218527118048@microsoft.com...
> Hi
>
> I have a machine running windows 2000 server which is under a domain. The
> lan card of the machine has gone bad, as a result it is not able to
> contact
> the domain controller. And the machine doesnt have local account. How do
> i
> login to the machine in such case?
>
> Thanks
> --
> soumya

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