Domain and Workgroup: Now can't logon

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Hello all.

Windows 2000 work machine, wife wanted to print to our
home computer.

Stuck a USB network connection on the back, changed from
using domain to workgroup, had to reboot so I did, then I
couldn't log into the machine. It didn't accept any
passwords that my wife has used on the machine.

So, take the machine to work to get IS to login using
administrator passwords and set everything right. WRONG!
None of their passwords worked either.

Any ideas?
Thanks!

Raj
 
The system administrator at your wife's work didn't know who to rejoin that
workstation????
Then he/she is in deep trouble....

Marina
 
You have to use the local admin password. Dont they have a standard local admin password?
 
One would think...

None of their passwords worked.

This is silly.

Raj
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You have to use the local admin password. Dont they have
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a standard local admin password?
 
As mentioned before, they searched the archives for old
passwords and hit something that worked.

In the spirit of learning though, why wasn't I able to
logon locally into a workgroup with my wife's password?
Her account has not been used in the workgroup before.

Thanks for the help!

Raj
 
Because there's no login for her on the local computer. You don't log into a
workgroup - you log into a computer that is a member of the workgroup. She
had a domain login, and the computer cached those credentials so that she
could log in while not on the company network. Once you removed the computer
from the domain, the cached credentials were gone. You would have needed to
know the local admin credentials in order to log in, but even with that, it
still wouldn't have given her her domain profile (and possibly, data)
back....

You don't need to make changes to domain settings in order to access
workgroup resources - she could just have connected to the network, and
specified the 'remote' computer's credentials when trying to connect to a
resource/share.
 
Because her account belongs to the domain and not to the workgroup. Once you
left the domain basically you removed any reference to her account, she was
logging in with cached domain information before when she is not connected
to her network. This is a very common problem since many companies to do not
allow their users to have local account on the laptop for security reasons.
So in essence once your machine was in a workgroup it had no idea who your
wife was. Hope this helps!
 
-----Original Message-----
As mentioned before, they searched the archives for old
passwords and hit something that worked.

In the spirit of learning though, why wasn't I able to
logon locally into a workgroup with my wife's password?
Her account has not been used in the workgroup before.

Thanks for the help!

Raj

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