Help with regaining domain setting!!!

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My desktop (Windows 2000)system as lost it's domain
setting, so of course my username and password no longer
work and our computer tech cannot remember the
administrator password, so I'm stuck trying to figure out
how to get the information off this computer and continue
working. I understand from the tech, that the only way to
correct this problem is to have him repair, because he has
a disk that will force the bypass of the passwords and
allow to reset I guess. If anyone can suggest and
alternative to this, that I can do to save $2,000, it
would be appreciated.

HELP!!!!
 
coral33076 said:
My desktop (Windows 2000)system as lost it's domain
setting, so of course my username and password no longer
work and our computer tech cannot remember the
administrator password, so I'm stuck trying to figure out
how to get the information off this computer and continue
working. I understand from the tech, that the only way to
correct this problem is to have him repair, because he has
a disk that will force the bypass of the passwords and
allow to reset I guess. If anyone can suggest and
alternative to this, that I can do to save $2,000, it
would be appreciated.

HELP!!!!
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Hi

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
 
My desktop (Windows 2000)system as lost it's domain
setting, so of course my username and password no longer
work and our computer tech cannot remember the
administrator password, so I'm stuck trying to figure out
how to get the information off this computer and continue
working. I understand from the tech, that the only way to
correct this problem is to have him repair, because he has
a disk that will force the bypass of the passwords and
allow to reset I guess. If anyone can suggest and
alternative to this, that I can do to save $2,000, it
would be appreciated.
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Need more information. This is part of a domain? And you can't just
rejoin the domain? And your network admin can't add the system to the
domain, or reset your password? And you can't get into the system as
a domain admin after doing this?

Not a solution but a way around the password issue, take a look at:

http://securityadmin.info/faq.asp#password

Jeff
 
if the machine is connected to the domain network you should be able to
login with a user name like domain\username and use your old domain
password. it may be best for a domain admin to do this so they can properly
add it back to the domain then let you login again.
 
coral33076 said:
My desktop (Windows 2000)system as lost it's domain
setting, so of course my username and password no longer
work and our computer tech cannot remember the
administrator password, so I'm stuck trying to figure out
how to get the information off this computer and continue
working. I understand from the tech, that the only way to
correct this problem is to have him repair, because he has
a disk that will force the bypass of the passwords and
allow to reset I guess. If anyone can suggest and
alternative to this, that I can do to save $2,000, it
would be appreciated.

HELP!!!!
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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>
 
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