Win2K changed domain -Can't logon

[rddavies]

I have a laptop with win2K with my company.
My laptop is in a win2k domain. The domain was called FOO_BAR. I had the bright idea that I wanted to share files across my home LAN. I have a workgroup at home called BAZ. Under Networking I did a change computer identity. I changed the laptop from the win2k domain FOO_BAR to the workgroup BAZ.
Now guess what? I can't log on to the laptop.
Not with my company userid/password. Not with a id/pword pair from my home lan. Not with anything. Not in safe mode. Nada. Zilch. Is there anything I can do (or a sysadmin at work) besides a reinstall of the OS? PLEASE HELP!!!

THANKS.

[jbyron]

The sysadmin should be able to log onto local computer to straiten things out.

[NDC]

Double Post...
http://www.sysopt.com/forum/Forum9/HTML/004655.html

[socalgal]

Please post in the one forum best suited for the topic. (No multiple posting.)

http://www.sysopt.com/forum/faq/faq2.html

Thanks.


[This message has been edited by socalgal (edited 07-01-2001).]

[seanc]

Your work sysadmin should be able to log on to the laptop as the local administrator and re-add your system to the doman at work.

Sean

[rddavies]

Thanks to all. I called an 800 number
and a support person walked me through
a process of restoring things to their
previous state. There is a way in with an
admistrators password, even if the computer's
identity has been changed. And I'm not the first one to have made this mistake http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif Thanks to all for your input.

[jbyron]

Now log on to the laptop as local computer
instead of domain and set the workgroup up.

[rddavies]

Actually moving files is dirt simple. On the laptop I just go to "START", choose "RUN", and then type in //10.1.2.3 i.e. the ip addr of a computer whose drives I want to see. I get a window with all shared drives for 10.1.2.3 Pretty simple. No muss, no fuss, and no workgroups or domains (which is fine with me!).