Fecked wifes new company. laptop
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My wife came home with a brand new shiny company issued laptop to replace her old one.
I had her old one working just fine, despite the mega overthetop firewalls etc. It would access the net and print on the shared printer connected to the main pc just fine.
Anyway, spent a 'happy' couple of hours trying to get the new one to do the same.
It will connect to the net yust fine with the radio n/w card. Will 'see' the main computer, but not logon to it or see the printer . (My laptop will do all these things just fine BTW)
Anyway, I tried to set up a fresh network connection. As it got to the end of the process, I started to get bad feelings, but couldn't stop the process.
It rebooted and now wants an administrator name and password to log on.
Windows 2000 Pro - just great.
Anyway, I am in the doghouse with the missus, who has a load of work to do and no laptop.
Any ideas to log on and revert the system to normal?
I had her old one working just fine, despite the mega overthetop firewalls etc. It would access the net and print on the shared printer connected to the main pc just fine.
Anyway, spent a 'happy' couple of hours trying to get the new one to do the same.
It will connect to the net yust fine with the radio n/w card. Will 'see' the main computer, but not logon to it or see the printer . (My laptop will do all these things just fine BTW)
Anyway, I tried to set up a fresh network connection. As it got to the end of the process, I started to get bad feelings, but couldn't stop the process.
It rebooted and now wants an administrator name and password to log on.
Windows 2000 Pro - just great.
Anyway, I am in the doghouse with the missus, who has a load of work to do and no laptop.
Any ideas to log on and revert the system to normal?
Tried doing F8 at the start and "last known good configuration" ?
(Not sure if this exists with Win2K)
Otherwise there are ways of busting the administrator password (http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd) if push comes to shove.. just hope nobody at the office notices!
>> Edited by john_p on Saturday 9th April 13:59
(Not sure if this exists with Win2K)
Otherwise there are ways of busting the administrator password (http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd) if push comes to shove.. just hope nobody at the office notices!
>> Edited by john_p on Saturday 9th April 13:59
andygo said:
My wife came home with a brand new shiny company issued laptop to replace her old one.
I had her old one working just fine, despite the mega overthetop firewalls etc. It would access the net and print on the shared printer connected to the main pc just fine.
Anyway, spent a 'happy' couple of hours trying to get the new one to do the same.
It will connect to the net yust fine with the radio n/w card. Will 'see' the main computer, but not logon to it or see the printer . (My laptop will do all these things just fine BTW)
Anyway, I tried to set up a fresh network connection. As it got to the end of the process, I started to get bad feelings, but couldn't stop the process.
It rebooted and now wants an administrator name and password to log on.
Windows 2000 Pro - just great.
Anyway, I am in the doghouse with the missus, who has a load of work to do and no laptop.
Any ideas to log on and revert the system to normal?
Right, first point. As (I'd hazard a guess) it's probably been set up correctly, and is part of a domain, you may have some trouble getting it to connect to your main pc. As being part of a domain means that it authenticates to access central resources on the domain it is part of, means that if it is trying to connect to a 'workgroup' (basicly home networks) it will fail, as it does not have the right authentication details.
I would give up trying to get it communicate, as this WILL drive you mad - I do this day in day out, and after five years of living with XP and 2k, have never reliably got a machine on a different domain to talk to a workgroup machine.
In the case of the logon, I would imagine that your wife was given a login, usually firstname.lastname for example. The password will be whatever she put in last time.
Final point, I wouldn't go busting administrator passwords, as it is a very final thing to do - it essentially trashes the laptop, as it screws the admins profile.
My advice would be to talk nicely to the IT people at your wifes work - I'm sure they'd be happy to help - I find it annoying when people don't, and insist it trying to 'get around' security put in place for a very obvious reason.
If you need any help let me know...
>> Edited by neil_cardiff on Monday 11th April 10:47
no offence intended but people like you are the bane of my life
I manage a team of support engineers across six office sites and am also responsible for the support of about 50 homeworkers, for a company that is regulated by the FSA - and you wouldn't believe the amount of bullsh!t they insist on for networks etc so if your missus works in financial services those 'overthetop firewalls' might well be there to satisfy some non-technical numpty at the FSA.
The amount of time me/my guys used to have to spend in sorting out people who had fuctup their machines at home was astronomical - despite the protestations that 'they hadn't done anything, it happened all by itself' yeah, right
Sorted out now as the machines are screwed down by group policy so they do what the user needs them to do and no more
Has it ever occurred to you that the laptop is company property and the company might not want it connected to your personal network?
I'd have a chat with the IT people at your missus' workplace and ask them nicely if they can help. Speaking personally we don't normally say no to most requests of this nature - IT provide a service to the business and therefore it would be unreasonable to reject the request out of hand.
I manage a team of support engineers across six office sites and am also responsible for the support of about 50 homeworkers, for a company that is regulated by the FSA - and you wouldn't believe the amount of bullsh!t they insist on for networks etc so if your missus works in financial services those 'overthetop firewalls' might well be there to satisfy some non-technical numpty at the FSA.
The amount of time me/my guys used to have to spend in sorting out people who had fuctup their machines at home was astronomical - despite the protestations that 'they hadn't done anything, it happened all by itself' yeah, right
Sorted out now as the machines are screwed down by group policy so they do what the user needs them to do and no more Has it ever occurred to you that the laptop is company property and the company might not want it connected to your personal network?
I'd have a chat with the IT people at your missus' workplace and ask them nicely if they can help. Speaking personally we don't normally say no to most requests of this nature - IT provide a service to the business and therefore it would be unreasonable to reject the request out of hand.
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