Hi all,
I've gotten myself into a mess by simply "playing around"! My goal was to test one of the many administrator password reset tools so I could put one on a floppy and keep it in my arsenal for when a user at a client would foolishly unjoin their domain and not know the local passwords. I've succeeded in royally screwing up my daughter's computer, which was joined to the domain in our home network. I initially couldn't get the password utility to work at all. I could use my domain logins, but whatever I set the local Administrator password towouldn't work until I logged into the domain and then reset it back using the function in Control Panel.
Anyway, at some point it all got messed up because now I can't do anything with the domain and I can only log into the computer locally as the Administrator.
Here's what's happening and what I've done:
1. If I simply try to log into the domain using the Administrator account (the option is still there on the login screen, I get the following errror: "The system cannot log you onto this domain because the system's primary domain password is missing".
2. If I try to unjoin from the domain and go into a local workgroup, I get the following error: The following error occurred attmpting to unjoin the domain xxxxx.com: The revision level is unknown."
3. I thought I'd try to add domain users back using the Control Panel/Users function, but when I click OK to Finish, I get the following error: "The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed".
4. If I try to browse to the PC from the server, I get an error saying that there is no trust relationship between the 2 computers.
5. I have successfully renamed the computer, thinking that this might have changed these symptoms, but it didn't. Everything is the same as before doing that.
Help! I really don't want to wipe out the computer and start over again, but I have a feeling that's where I'm going.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Tom
