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It will become a member server of your domain, so you can login using a domain account. 
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It will become a member server of your domain, so you can login using a domain account.

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Its going to be a stand alone file server for an office without a domain, it's already out of the office for the domain it was in service for.
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Its going to be a stand alone file server for an office without a domain, it's already out of the office for the domain it was in service for.

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I'ts already been replaced from its domain, I guess I'll just have to hope some part of gthe process gives me a login I can use, thanks
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I'ts already been replaced from its domain, I guess I'll just have to hope some part of gthe process gives me a login I can use, thanks

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I am going to be demoting a domain controller to use as a file server in a different office in a different domain. I looked at some website guides and they say to run the dcpromo command but beyond that once it demotes how do I login to it.If I were removing an XP PC from a domain I can go into Local Users and computers and set the local administrator password but that doesn't exist on my domain controller so once I demote it what is the login?
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I am going to be demoting a domain controller to use as a file server in a different office in a different domain. I looked at some website guides and they say to run the dcpromo command but beyond that once it demotes how do I login to it.If I were removing an XP PC from a domain I can go into Local Users and computers and set the local administrator password but that doesn't exist on my domain controller so once I demote it what is the login?

Demote Windows server 2003 Domain Controller

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).