Need some emergency XP pro help

[asm0deus]

I'm sure i'm going to get alot of SOL responses so please don't post them, I've read about 5 tutorials about password recovery and what not and most of them have failed because this NTFS partition doesn't allow linux to write to it. So here's my debacle:

Our old administrator's machine (has a few semi-important things on it, if I can't get into it no big deal really) was logging into a domain, which apparently wasn't on the same network that I needed to be on. So I changed it to my network (a workgroup) and rebooted. Bam, wrong password everywhere. Can't login, now since i've tried all the linux and dos based password recovery tools to no avail I'm going to ask my question like this:

How can I change back to the previous domain instead of the workgroup without having access to windows? Kinda looking for a registry tweak or another method..

Thanks so much for any help at all!

 

[bsobel]

Sorry for the SOL response, but rejoining the domain is going to require a domain login with rights to join the box.

That said, you could try systemrestore (if it is enabled) and roll back to before you pulled the box from the domain.

Bill

 

[asm0deus]

meh you gotta get into windows to do a system restore 🙁

edit:
any idea if this logon.scr fakie would work with winxp? (it does load a .scr when idle long enough)

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: asm0deus
meh you gotta get into windows to do a system restore 🙁

edit:
any idea if this logon.scr fakie would work with winxp? (it does load a .scr when idle long enough)

I think sysinternals has a tool (pay tool) that allows you to do system restore from a boot disk.

 

[ivwshane]

If you disjoin from the domain do you staill have access to the local admin account?

The default I think is administrator with no password. If the password has changed then maybe you can use one of the linux tools to change that account password.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: ivwshane
If you disjoin from the domain do you staill have access to the local admin account?

The default I think is administrator with no password. If the password has changed then maybe you can use one of the linux tools to change that account password.

The default password is the one provided during the install.
Bill

 

[John]

I typically remove passwords when I change from a domain to a workgroup. However when I forget I use ERD commander to reset it.