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Posted by Jon Holvoet on August 19, 2007, 6:17 am
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you have physical access to the server, and either reset or crack the PW.
There are plenty of tools and whitepapers available for this.
Since I am fairly new to this particular newsgroup and have no idea if it's
allowed to give this information, I will not post direct links.
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Jon Holvoet
> Hi
>
> To explain the situation, we currently have a Windows Storage Server 2003
> R2
> which has been reporting errors of 'Windows cannot determine the user or
> computer name'. This has been experienced previously and overcome by
> adding
> the server to a Workgroup, rebooting, logging on to the server locally,
> then
> reconnecting the server to the domain.
> However, unfortunately the particular server in question was configured by
> a
> contractor who, predictably, never gave us the local password. Therefore I
> currently have a Storage Server which is no longer on our Windows 2000
> domain
> and which I am unable to log onto to reconnect to the domain. As i'm sure
> you
> will agree it is a bit of a problem!
>
> So my questions are:
>
> a) is there any way to reconnect the server to the domain without logging
> on
> locally?
> b) if the answer to the above is no, what is the best way to recover the
> local administrator password?
> c) Any other suggestions?
>
> I would be very grateful for any advice anyone could give me with this.
>
> Many thanks
>
> James
>
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