Huge Laptop Logon problem

[jasonstewart]

I have a laptop that has Windows 2000 on it and has NEVER been in a domain environment. I use this for everything including internet access at home. I rebooted my machine and it states I cant log on because Stewart2000 (name of laptop)domain server unavailable. I am trying to logon with the admin account, have tried every other account on the machine, LKG, Safe Mode and hitting it. Nothing worked so far. Any suggestions? Thanks for any help.

 

[Jomama46]

Funny, that last one always works on my TV!
Can you boot from a: to access the .pwl files?
Unless there is some little thing you are missing in the logon. How many times has that happened to me?!

Jomama

 

[yamcha]

Hi.
When you join on a Domain, you can select in the logon Screen, the way of you want to Sing in.
In that list you must have the Domain Name and the Computer Name, if you try to Log on the Domain, you must to have connected to your server, otherwise you must to select the Computername in the list of domains to sign in with the "Local Administrator account".

Good Luck !!!

 

[wolluf]

Jomama46 - .pwl files on 2k?

jasonstewart - you make a big noise abot notbeing on a domain - why? Most people wouldn't know about domain. So - suspect you've got more to tell.

 

[jasonstewart]

I make a big noise about not being in a domain because this is a home machine, never seen a domain, this machine is only connected to the internet and no other machines. Also there is no drop down for the different domains that I could theoretically log on to. I was working fine, I rebooted, still only connected to the internet through my wireless card and it comes back up extremely slow and says that my domain server isn't available, and the domain server that it is referring to is Stewart2000, the name of my laptop.

 

[jasonstewart]

I forgot to mention that I do have access and can make modifications via linux boot disk and that is what I am currently trying. I have an old laptop with Win2K on it and am searching through the registry to find every place where the computer name is and am going to try to manually enter all of those that matter in my jacked up machine.

 

[jasonstewart]

Thank you for your posts, it turned out to be a reg. problem, I found my SP4 disk and ERD and it is fixed, I am back to IE5 but I can fix that now. Thanks again.