Logon failure (Network vs. Home)

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My brother brought a computer home from work. (At work, the computer
was on the company's network.)

At home, I tried to log on by giving the correct password, but the
system does not accept it.

Being completely ignorant, I assumed the information was not stored
locally but on the server. But then again, the user name is already
there, without me having to type it in.

Is this computer only meant to work on the company's network?

Is the information stored locally or on the server?

Is there any way to make it work at home?


Thank you.
 
Pegasus said:
Ask the network administrator at the office for the password of
the local "Administrator" account.
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Thank you for the reply.

I'm not familiar with networks, so I'm not sure I understand what
"local Administrator account" means.

The machine came with a user name -- a shortened version of the name of
the colleague using it -- and a password.

Is this not the 'local admin account' ? What is this account called
(when a machine is connected to a company network)?

Are there *two* accounts for each machine connected to a company
network?

I need a little clarification on this, so that my brother knows
*exactly* what he should ask the network administrator for.
 
Every Win2000/XP PC has a logon account called "administrator".
The network administrator at your office will know what it is. The
user name you refer to was a "domain" account - it has only
limited usefulness when the machine is away from the office.

As I said, ask the network administrator for the password
that goes with the local account called "administrator".
 
Under normal circumstances, the username and password are cached on the
machine just in case you need to login when you're not connected to the
network (laptops) or if there is not network connection.

If the administrator issues a group policy to disable cached
credentials, then the machine will only login using the username and
password for the domain if it can connect and authenticate with a server.

To use the LOCAL MACHINE LOGON as is being suggested by Pegasus, when
you boot this machine up and press CTRL+ALT+DEL, where it says user
name, you would change this to administrator and where it says logon to
or domain name (third field) click on the drop down arrow and select the
name of the computer (it will have (this computer) in brackets).

You will then just need the password for that local administrator to
access the desktop. Note that when you login with this local account,
you will get a different desktop from what you would get if you had
logon with the domain account that uses the machine.
 
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