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Jure Sah
Hello,
I was working with a laptop that had Windows 2000 preinstalled. It was
originaly configured to be part of a company network and I was just onto
taking off personal files before the laptop would be sent back to the
company to be purged.
I had my own username and password and the company had the administrator
password.
In an attempt to make the laptop accessable from the home LAN (made of
one Windows 98, two Windows ME computers and a modern router with DHCP
server) I've tried to change the laptop's network settings, namely the
workgroup name and IP assignment method to what was appropriate to the
other computers in the home LAN. Some kind of wizzard popped up and
since I could see it asking me for little more than the workgroup name,
I filled in the data and let it do it's stuff. It asked me to reboot and
so I did (used a "Finnish" button).
After this my laptop was truely Finnished, since I could no longer log
on using my username and password. I used the other computers and looked
it up on USENET what should I look out for and I've tried all possible
Capslock and Numlock combinations and nothing worked. I've also tried
the system restore and connecting and dissconnecting the network cable,
however nothing worked.
Any ideas?
Also, I would love to understand how this Windows 2000 'network magic'
works because at my workplace where I help with the technical support,
we've had some major nightmares with dual-boot computers, where we
exchanged Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE installations (half the things
we do as a company is severely impractical in windows 2000, and we
require to be compatible because half of our clients are also on Windows
98SE for the same reasons) and the two seemed to be sharing registry
data, resulting in dissaster.
Thank you for your time.
I was working with a laptop that had Windows 2000 preinstalled. It was
originaly configured to be part of a company network and I was just onto
taking off personal files before the laptop would be sent back to the
company to be purged.
I had my own username and password and the company had the administrator
password.
In an attempt to make the laptop accessable from the home LAN (made of
one Windows 98, two Windows ME computers and a modern router with DHCP
server) I've tried to change the laptop's network settings, namely the
workgroup name and IP assignment method to what was appropriate to the
other computers in the home LAN. Some kind of wizzard popped up and
since I could see it asking me for little more than the workgroup name,
I filled in the data and let it do it's stuff. It asked me to reboot and
so I did (used a "Finnish" button).
After this my laptop was truely Finnished, since I could no longer log
on using my username and password. I used the other computers and looked
it up on USENET what should I look out for and I've tried all possible
Capslock and Numlock combinations and nothing worked. I've also tried
the system restore and connecting and dissconnecting the network cable,
however nothing worked.
Any ideas?
Also, I would love to understand how this Windows 2000 'network magic'
works because at my workplace where I help with the technical support,
we've had some major nightmares with dual-boot computers, where we
exchanged Windows 2000 and Windows 98SE installations (half the things
we do as a company is severely impractical in windows 2000, and we
require to be compatible because half of our clients are also on Windows
98SE for the same reasons) and the two seemed to be sharing registry
data, resulting in dissaster.
Thank you for your time.