Re: I really screwed up this time!

From: R. P. (r_pol12gar_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/20/05 

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:47:59 -0700

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote:
> When you change the "radio button" to Domain from workgroup, you
> should enter the FQDN (excluding the workstation name) in the domain
> field.. i.e.: region.nos.company.com (However - if your DNS is setup
> correctly on your laptop, whatever you saw when logging in would be
> fine.. For example, if in the DOMAIN fiel in the logon box you saw
> "REGION", then you could enter that in the DOMAIN field when leaving
> the workgroup for the domain.)
>
> When it asks for the username, your username should be the DOMAIN name
> backslash your username: REGION\Username.
> (Since you are not a member of the domain yet - you need to tell the
> authenticating system you are logging in as the DOMAIN user and not
> the local user of that computer - although it may work out either way
> for you.)
>
> On top of all that - you must be logged into the laptop as a local
> administrator.

Well, my company's PC Support guys fixed the problem today. Apparently
each PC has a special Administrator account and password that allows
them to log into it even if users like me screw things up. Next I'm
going to try out Malke's suggestion to map my printer attached to the
desktop PC's LPT1 port to the laptop. Frankly, I've never seen this "net
use" command before because our company printers were all on the network
with their own IP addresses.

Thanks for all the tips you guys gave me. Thanks to you, these MS news
groups are an invaluable resource.

Rudy

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