Re: Joined a workgroup leaving domain config not able to login...

From: John (john_at_taminc.com)
Date: 09/02/03 

Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:23:23 -0700

Mike - is the default administrator password blank or
something else - and when you say clean install OS do you
mean from a reformat or can it be tried on the existing
disk?

I wish there was a warning when you change from a domain
to a workgroup that user logins won't work!

>-----Original Message-----
>If you remove your self from the corporate domain then
your domain account
>is not valid (since you are not a member of the Domain to
perform that
>authentication).
>The only valid account on the PC will be the local
Administrator account.
>The password for this account was set at install time for
this PC.
>You should contact your corporate IT support staff for
recovery process (as
>they may know the initial install process password).
>If you no longer have access to the corporate IT support
function then you
>will need to clean install the OS again.
>
>--
>Regards,
>
>Mike
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>"Dario Vargas" <dario_vargas@entouch.net> wrote in message
>news:023801c35faa$06980150$a501280a@phx.gbl...
>> I joined a workgroup leaving a corporate domain. After
>> reboot the laptop I'm not able to login with my old
>> username and password. Forgot administrator password.
How
>> I could get back to the corporate config or been able to
>> login?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>> Dario
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