I tried to setup a home network with my home PC and my laptop from work via a Cable/DSL Router. To do this I created a workgroup called MSHOME and added my desktop home PC, then tried to change the workgroup on my latop (temporarily) from CRWP0 (the workgroup I am a part of at work I guess) to MSHOME. I figured when I don't want to be on my home network, I can simply change the workgroup on my laptop back to CRWP0. But when I made the initial change on my work latop from CRWP0 to MSHOME, it made me reboot, and now it won't let me log on and access my PC! The logon screen I am shown no longer has the DOMAIN pull-down menu, only user name/password text fields. I need to get back into my work latop, please help! Thanks!

Try selecting "last known good configuration" before the login window is displayed.

You must have changed it from a Domain login (CRWP0) to a workgroup login. All you have to do is enter the LOCAL Administrator name and password.

Okay that makes sense. But when I created the MSHOME workgroup on my desktop, I never assigned an admin user/pwd. Is there a default that I can use?

Ok here is some more info on my problem. When I click on 'View Workgroup Computers' in the Network window on my desktop PC (running Win XP) and then click 'mshome', I can see my laptop on the network, and the icon caption says "WP 1-10/0.0.0.0 (WP028954)". So I take it that the name for my latop on the network is WP028954? But I still can't log in to anything on the laptop. I even took Jen's suggestion and tried invoking the last hardware profile, but it didn't revert to the old network settings. =( Anyone know where I can create or access a user name/pwd combo that I can use to successfully log in with my laptop? Thanks.

I agree with Jennifer it looks like you changed from a Domain setup to a Workgroup. The guys at your workplace can fix this quite easily as they know the Local Administrator username/password. It looks like you don't, so just take it back in and say you opened a dodgy mail or something and weren't really trying to make it part of your home network without speaking to them ;)

Thanks =) That's exactly what they did -- they used the local admin pwd to get in and fix everything. I was honest though and the help desk guy didn't like what I did, but alls well that ends well :)