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changed domain login to workgroup login
Name: Greg Date: April 12, 2001 at 19:50:14 Pacific
Comment:
My wife has a win2k laptop at work that was configured for her to log into their domain. We tried to reconfigure it for home use, by pointing it to our workgroup instead. Now she can't log in at all, apparently because her domain login is not the same as her local login. (She only gets a username and password prompt to login, no domain pulldown)
Any suggestions for how to get in? Or at least switch it back to prompting for the domain. We tried booting from the "Last known good profile," but that didn't do anything different.
Name: Gabe Date: April 13, 2001 at 11:12:22 Pacific
Reply:
Greg,
If I'm understanding this correctly, you want to go back to getting the domain pull down. Go to Start>Settings>Control Panel>System>Network Identification>Properties. Select either the domain or workgroup option, and type in the appropriate domain/workgroup.
If you're trying to have that PC join your home workgroup, select the workgroup option. It "should" give allow you to get into your workgroup. Or, you could log in locally on her laptop, and as long as you've got her laptop plugged into a hub on your network, you'll get into your home network.
Hope that works out for you.
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Response Number 2
Name: jaime Date: August 17, 2001 at 13:40:41 Pacific
Reply:
Ihave the same problem that greg had, except that I cannot log in at all into my laptop. the username and domain do not work, but I cannot go back in to change the workgroup back to domain. Any ideas?
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