Change from domain to workgroup - Please Help

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I was trying to get a W2k Pro machine on my home network
MSHOME. The machine is from my office and is psrt of a
domain there. I simply added the machine to a workgroup
I did not change any of the Domain settings.


Now when I boot the machine the password that was
allowing me in doesn't work. Whant did I do wrong?
How do I get back into the machine?
 
When you say I didn't change any of the domain settings you are incorrect.
By joining a Workgroup(MSHOME) you disjoined from the domain. So basically
you removed all of the domain settings. You will have to have your
administrator at work join this back to the work domain but fear not. Your
profile should still be fine on the local machine and you should not lose
any data. The admin can help you get that setup back to where it was.
Without knowing a local account at all on this machine you will not be able
to get in. This is a very common issue.
 
Okay, That gets me started. How do I determine what the
password for the local Administrator is? Is there a
default? I did not assign a specific password when I
changed the setting to be part of a workgoup.

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Since you logged on locally now, you need to know the
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password for the local administrator.
 
Is there a default local account that is created whnt the
OS is first installed?

Seems that since it's a common issue there would be more
of a warning before one is allowed to change this
setting.

If the Admin at work doesn't have the local account how
will he be able to join it back to the domain? How will
he be able to get into the machine?
 
The account (username & pass) that u have is for your domain account on your
works' domain controller. What u need is a local account for the computer. U
will need to get the administrator password or a regular username with pass
for the local machine then in the dropdown list change the "logon to
options" to the local machin not the domain, u might see
"your_works'_domain_name" change it to "the_name_of_the_PC" This Computer.
After gaining access to the pc, change its membership from domain to
workgroup then create an account for yourself. System properties > computer
name > change.
 
The default account for the admin is 'administrator' and there is no default
password. Although you could try blank, password, PASSWORD, admin, etc. but
most likely the administrator at your work has put a strong, unknown to you,
password on this machine and also they could have renamed the default
adminisitrator account. If your guys are good all of these things could be
in place and you will not get into this machine without cracking the
password. If they do not have the password they should have their own
methods of getting in. There are many posts on the internet about how to
reset the password. Just do a google search for lost password and you find
some ways. BUT your network people may be upset if you do this.
 
Note, the real problem is that your network people have made you a local
administrator on your computer with your work domain account. If you were
just a regular user on your machine you would not have been able to make
this change. But there can be issues with not having you as the
administrator because you cannot install software sometimes and there are
other restrictions that could interfere with your using this laptop so that
may have been why they did this. They should have educated you not to
perform this action or given you a local account to use as a backup.
 
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