HELP! I'm FUBAR!

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Daniel Billingsley

I had a moment of complete stupidity and disabled the NIC
on one of my member servers. (I suspected it was part of
an ARP flooding problem I'm having, but that's another
story.)

Now of course I can't log on with a domain user
(administrator) because the server can't communicate with
the network. I had previously done some lockedown on
this server so there's no cached credentials, for
example. For some reason, I can not log in as the local
admin, probably because of something I did in that
lockdown.

So, the question is, can anyone think of any possible way
to get that NIC back enabled or otherwise get this box
back on the network without being able to log in to the
box?

I tried putting in another NIC, but as I expected it
won't connect until I can log in and install the drivers.

This happens to be our Exchange server so there's a bit
of pressure right now. :)
 
Is there a reason why you can not log in as a local administrator and then
enable the nic? I understand why you can not login as a domain admin, but I
do not see what prevents you from logging in as a local admin.
 
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