Changing Domain to workgroup

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I have a company computer, that was on a companyu domain,
I followed the sets to change it to my home workgroup, it
then required a restart, that is did and now when I
starts up it goes to the CRTL, ALT Delete screen and my
user name and password doesn't work. Any suggestions on
how to get around this? Please let me know.

Thank you
 
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I have a company computer, that was on a companyu domain,
I followed the sets to change it to my home workgroup, it
then required a restart, that is did and now when I
starts up it goes to the CRTL, ALT Delete screen and my
user name and password doesn't work. Any suggestions on
how to get around this? Please let me know.

Thank you
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Your computer was authenticating through the server, ie
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you were a user on the server. You must now create a user
on the local machine. To do this you must log into the
computer you have as administrator and create a new user
with or without password and reboot. Once rebooted right
click my computer and select properties to ensure you are
part of the workgroup if not select network tab and
rejoin. You will also have to set up your desktop again
when you reboot.
 
You will need to have your company support folks re-join it to the domain,
then work with them to construct a logon that will work on or off the
domain.
 
Kim said:
I have a company computer, that was on a companyu domain,
I followed the sets to change it to my home workgroup, it
then required a restart, that is did and now when I
starts up it goes to the CRTL, ALT Delete screen and my
user name and password doesn't work. Any suggestions on
how to get around this? Please let me know.

Thank you
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Hello
You now need to enter you local username and password rather
than the domain. If you have forgot the local Administrator password then:

You might try to reset the local Administrator
password with one of the methods mentioned here:

http://securityadmin.info/noframes/faqget.asp#password

http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpassword/bootdisk.html




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The only way you can log in is by using the local admin account & password -
but even this will not 'restore' anything or give you access to your old
domain profile. You need to bring your laptop back to work and ask the
domain admin to rejoin it to the domain. He or she will need to know the
local admin credentials on the laptop.

Note - you don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources on
it. You shouldn't play with your laptop's network settings at all. Once
you've logged in using your domain account (using cached credentials), and
have an IP address on the home network, you can map drives, use printers,
whatnot, very easily - one way, in a command line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

Do not mess with your network settings. This is one of the reasons admins do
not like granting user accounts local admin rights.
 
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