Re: Local profile and passwords

From: Miha Pihler (miha.pihler_at_Atlantis-N0Spam.si)
Date: 08/02/03 

Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 10:50:48 +0200

Hi Jamie,

If user can't remember local password you can login to the PC with e.g.
Domain Administrator Account and change his local password. After your
successfully login right click My Computer -> Manage -> expand Users and
Groups -> click on Users -> select the old (local) user and right click
it -> select Change Password.

***
NOTE: If user has used Encrypted File System (EFS) under this account,
changing the password this was will prevent him from accessing encrypted
files (they will be useless)
***

Other thing you can do is make domain user local admin on PC by adding him
to the Administrator Group.
To do this again Login to the PC as Domain Administrator and after your
successfully login right click My Computer -> Manage -> expand Users and
Groups -> click on Groups -> select the Administrator -> click Add and look
the Domain User in domain. Add him to this group.

Now logon as this user and take ownership of his files. They should be in
c:\Documents and Settings\<oldusername>
Here is how you can take ownership:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421

---
Mike
MCSA 2K, MCSE 2K, MCT, ...

"Jamie" <jamie.johnson@cox.net> wrote in message
news:065901c358a0$81e9f130$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a user that had .pst, files etc. in a local
> profile. They joined a domain with the PC, and didn't
> remember their old local account password (it's actually
> more complicated than that, but that's the crux of the
> situation). It was changed via the admin account.
> Question, is the data int hat folder lost, or can it be
> recovered? If it can be recovered, will an ntfs boot disk
> work?
>
> Thanks

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