Nimbus

Hi,

Does anyone have a util that will recover/set the admin password in Win2000pro? It seems that one of our PCs in Egypt does not like the password (supposedly) set during setup. We've tryed all the other standard ones we use but no luck.

I need to get this done in the next hour or so, so if anyone has anything that can help it's much appreciated. If possible it needs to be something simple as it's their non-IT bod there who will be doing it.

Mail me if you prefer.


Cheers

IanW

NTLinux Boot Disk should do the job, but I would be reluctant to get someone without a reasonable knowledge to do it.

Nimbus

Hi Ian,

Yea, I've got this now and reading the instructions it's not something I would want to get a non-IT person doing. Especially as English is not there first laguage...

IanW

It will deffinatly do the job, and I have not found anything better!

Is the machine on a domain at all? can you not login as a Domain Admin and then reset teh password on teh local machine through User Manager?

Nimbus

No, it's not on a Domain. It's not even on a LAN at the moment.

IanW

Can you join it to a LAN?

When you join the machine to the LAN it should ask for permission of an account to join teh domain, which will then give a Domain Admin account Admin rights on the PC.

Nimbus

No. It's in a warehouse which is about 2 miles from the actual office.

IanW

Doh!

I think that NTLinux might be the only option in that case tehn unless someone else knows of anything different.

king_tut

Okily dokily I have the answer to this problem :-)

download and unzip to a folder http://www.krissstephen.net/option1.zip

run cmd then navigate to the folder u created and run the makeme.bat file, ull need a floppy disk in the drive.

on the computer you need to fix insert the floppy and boot the computer up, when prompted for the files u need to edit they are as follows sam system security

if you need any more help give me an email as per profile

Nimbus

Hi King,

That's the same util that Neil and I have. I'm going through this on a test machine at the mo and writing some (hopfully) user-proof instructions for it.

Thanks anyway.

king_tut

it works 100% guranteed on NT and 2000 ive used it before many a time.

Nimbus

Well, program and instructions mailed to them. Let see if they can't bugger it up somehow...

Nimbus

Phew, that was hard work. But they did it in the end (second attempt)..

Cheers everyone...

pblakeway

HELP---- URGENT (as always)

Got the same problem but the link not work

can anyone point me in the right direction for these files

Cheers
Paul

pblakeway

Cheers King_Tut, saved by scoobynet again


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