Can anyone tell me how to find out the NT Admin password of a "passed down to me" server? It's very old and was given to me, but I don't want to have to wipe it out. I'm going to use it as a backup utility as it has a DAT. I got into it using the Admin password for it's domain. I didnt want it to log onto a domain though, I wanted it to use a workgroup instead. So I told it to use the workgroup, and restarted it. Now it comes up asking for a username and password, but no domain. So I try the one I was using to log into it when it was using a domain, and it doesn't work. Any suggestions? Please help me out, I really need to start backing up my home business. I don't, however, want to pay for a password cracker program. Thanks Joe

First thing you should have done was change the local Administrator password. Too late now. You can try a Linux boot disk, or L0PHTCrack. Or, better yet, talk to the person who sold it to you.

I've tried asking the person that gave it to me. They gave me some passwords to try, but they didn't work. I tried some linux disk, but it kept asking for the boot partition, and I don't know what that is. Also, what is this other thing? (L0PHTCrack). Never heard of it.

http://www.computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/17360.html covers most options; 2 cost only time/effort - one of which is the Linux bootdisk util (Bills' option) from http://www.nttolbox.com, the other a parallel install.

Here's the link for lophtcrack putting it plainly it's a brute force password cracker very easy to use http://www.l0pht.com/l0phtcrack/dist/l0phtcrack25.exe