Re: Password question

You're welcome. Lol, curiosity gets the best of us all! Or most of us anyway, all for naught in the end. ;-)

After Richard posted I said to myself duh! How could I forget my NT 101 so easily...

John

Chris Hall wrote:

Thanks Joe & John!

Ended up purchasing a couple pieces of software--ERD Commander and some word
cracking util. As it turned out, the word documents were nothing more than
dribble.

Merry Christmas,
C
"Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:epuLFsZAGHA.1288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Last I heard you can't delete the builtin admin ID, possibly you don't 

know the

ID name as he may have changed it. If you can establish an anonymous 

connection

to the machine over the network you can determine the admin IDs by looking 

at

the admin group or enumerating the builtin admin SID. The easiest way to 

do this

would be to

net user x: \\machinename\ipc$ /user:"" ""

lg \\machinename\administrators

You can get lg from my website (www.joeware.net)

The password protected Word docs can probably be accessed but it will 

require

you to purchase software to crack them.

--
Joe Richards Microsoft MVP Windows Server Directory Services
www.joeware.net


Chris Hall wrote:

We have an employee that is no longer with the company. He deleted the 

local

administrator account and his pc is not joined to the domain. He also 

has

two Word docs that are password protected. I need to be able to access 

his

computer and these documents. Any suggestions? Tools/utilities?





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