[1110] in winnt
Re: Password recovery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kerem B Limon)
Wed May 21 15:17:50 2003
Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20030521151157.05b8ce80@po11.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 May 2003 15:17:36 -0400
To: "Scott Hendry" <Scott.Hendry@TechnologyReview.com>
From: Kerem B Limon <kerem.limon@MIT.EDU>
Cc: <itpartners@mit.edu>, <winpartners@mit.edu>
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Scott--
You might want to check out the Winternals Administrator Pak or ERD
Commander 2002, which both include their Locksmith utility. It's rather
expensive ($699 and $399, respectively), but is a good tool.
You might also want to ask people on this list to see if there is someone
here with a license for either and willing to help you. I have older
versions of the utilities that do not work with Windows 2000 and above,
best I recall.
And of course, a free last resort is to do a 'parallel' install on the
machine, i.e., install Windows 2000 over, but into a separate folder
instead of \WinNT or \Windows (whichever the existing one is) and choosing
to preserve the file system. That way, you could get the data off. There
are other ways to reset passwords, but they are rather complicated and at
that point, unless this is a particularly difficult machine to reinstall,
you're better of doing a clean install, anyway.
Good luck,
Kerem
At 03/05/20 07:40 Tuesday, Scott Hendry wrote:
>-Scott
>
>Hi All,
>Yesterday we had a problem changing a computers name of a windows 2000
>laptop.
>While it was changing its name the Windows 2000 DC decided that it would
>drop the old name from Active Directory and not add the new name.
>The computer thinks that it still has the old name and is still part of
>the domain.
>Since the computer account is no longer in the domain we can't log onto
>the domain with the computer. Normally this wouldn't be a problem but
>the local admin password was changed to something that we don't know.
>Does anyone out there have a password recovery too?
>
>Thanks for the help.
>-Scott
>
>
>_____________________________________
>Scott Hendry
>Network Coordinator
>Technology Review, Inc.: An MIT Enterprise
>One Main Street, 7th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142
>Phone: 617.475.8082 | Fax: 617.475.8042
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<font size=3>Scott--<br><br>
You might want to check out the Winternals Administrator Pak or ERD
Commander 2002, which both include their Locksmith utility. It's rather
expensive ($699 and $399, respectively), but is a good tool.<br><br>
You might also want to ask people on this list to see if there is someone
here with a license for either and willing to help you. I have older
versions of the utilities that do not work with Windows 2000 and above,
best I recall.<br><br>
And of course, a free last resort is to do a 'parallel' install on the
machine, i.e., install Windows 2000 over, but into a separate folder
instead of \WinNT or \Windows (whichever the existing one is) and
choosing to preserve the file system. That way, you could get the data
off. There are other ways to reset passwords, but they are rather
complicated and at that point, unless this is a particularly difficult
machine to reinstall, you're better of doing a clean install,
anyway.<br><br>
Good luck,<br>
Kerem<br><br>
<br>
At 03/05/20 07:40 Tuesday, Scott Hendry wrote:<br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>-Scott<br>
<br>
Hi All,<br>
Yesterday we had a problem changing a computers name of a windows
2000<br>
laptop. <br>
While it was changing its name the Windows 2000 DC decided that it
would<br>
drop the old name from Active Directory and not add the new name. <br>
The computer thinks that it still has the old name and is still part
of<br>
the domain.<br>
Since the computer account is no longer in the domain we can't log
onto<br>
the domain with the computer. Normally this wouldn't be a problem
but<br>
the local admin password was changed to something that we don't
know.<br>
Does anyone out there have a password recovery too?<br><br>
Thanks for the help.<br>
-Scott<br><br>
<br>
_____________________________________<br>
Scott Hendry<br>
Network Coordinator<br>
Technology Review, Inc.: An MIT Enterprise<br>
One Main Street, 7th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142<br>
Phone: 617.475.8082 | Fax: 617.475.8042</font></blockquote></body>
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