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Weird XP problem replacing username
Name: Apropos Date: June 26, 2008 at 22:33:16 Pacific OS: XP CPU/Ram: don't remember Product: Dell
Comment:
I connected a lot of new computers for a non-profit up to their workgroup. All the computers are working correctly but two. For some reason both computers when they try to log in XP replaces the username with computername\username. I've never encountered this before and it's not happening on the other machines at all. All the computer are fresh new Dell's with the same specs. Has anybody had this problem?
Name: guapo Date: June 27, 2008 at 06:27:57 Pacific
Reply:
Are you sure it's a workgroup and not a domain? I had the same problem when trying to join Vista Home to a domain. Then I found out that it can't be done.
If it's a workgroup, the login is to the local machine and it doesn't matter what the user name is.
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Name: picohat Date: June 27, 2008 at 08:02:48 Pacific
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