Joining a domain, lost admin

[pcunix]

I'm confused and am not sure what happened here.

I had three Xp Pro systems that were set up as workgroup systems and needed to join a domain. At the same time, their login names needed to be changed to match the naming conventions of the domain: for example, they were logging in to their machine as John Smith, but the NT domain requires jsmith. Also, they had no passwords.

So.. I renamed John Smith to jsmith, added the password, and joined the domain. I then wanted to copy the old user profile to the new domain login, but found that jsmith no longer had administrative power, even if I log into this computer rather than the domain. So because jsmith is not the administrator (though John Smith obviously was or I wouldn't have been able to join the domain), I can't copy jsmith/workgroup to jsmith/domain.

I am confused - what happened? Is there any way to fix this short of buying password cracking software?



Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[SRotblat]

login to the local machine using the local account and add the domain account to the administrator's list.

 

[pcunix]

Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but how can I do that - I don't have an administrator account to log in to. I don't know the actual Administrator password, and the account that used to also be an admin account no longer is.





Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com

 

[Freestone]

You or someone else should log in as the domain administrator (or equivalent) and place the jsmith domain account into the local Administrators group.

 

[pcunix]

Ah, thank you! That's working.

But still would like to understand what happened?

Tony Lawrence
SCO Unix/Linux Resources

http://pcunix.com

tony@pcunix.com