fyrehead
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Lost admin password to domain
I have been everywhere and tried every article. Has anyone EVER actually recovered the administrator password to a small business server 2003 that was fully deployed, and also had changed the administrator username!
This is very important. Thank you.
This is very important. Thank you.
ASKER
yes ive been there, nothing there states anything about an administrator whose username has been changed, as well as sbs 2003 specific, and i have tried those solutions.
ASKER
I know thati have xp machines that i have logged into with that username and password, maybe there is a way to pull it out of them?
I specifically have used UBCD4WIN (http://www.ubcd4win.com) and PasswordPro (included on the CD) to do this... and even with a changed administrator name on an SBS. You have to use a known user name and password in order for it to find the hash key... and it could take a few hours of it running to do so, but it will succeed.
Jeff
TechSoEasy
Jeff
TechSoEasy
ASKER
When you say a known username and password, do you mean a local username and password of the server admin or another regular user in the domain?
There are no local usernames on an SBS machine because it's a Domain Controller. So, just any other domain username and password. By providing those to PasswordPro you are giving it the start of an algorythm to work with.
Jeff
TechSoEasy
Jeff
TechSoEasy
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FYI,
UBCD4WIN is an enhanced BartPE CD and it also includes the Sala Plugin along with a number of other tools that I prefer more than the standard lot provided with BartPE. HOWEVER, I would strongly recommend against using this to CHANGE the builtin administrator password of an SBS machine. This is opening up the possibility for many other things to fail so it should only be a last resort option.
Jeff
TechSoEasy
UBCD4WIN is an enhanced BartPE CD and it also includes the Sala Plugin along with a number of other tools that I prefer more than the standard lot provided with BartPE. HOWEVER, I would strongly recommend against using this to CHANGE the builtin administrator password of an SBS machine. This is opening up the possibility for many other things to fail so it should only be a last resort option.
Jeff
TechSoEasy
fyrehead, were you ever able to gain access?
--Rob
--Rob
http://www.petri.co.il/forgot_administrator_password.htm
Jeff
TechSoEasy