Urgent Prob Win2K Lockout - with a twist
03 March 2004, 10:35 AM
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Urgent Prob Win2K Lockout - with a twist
HI peeops,
Just posting this as a last desperate resort. The new boy here installed some software and rebooted the machine, seems he changed the admin password and no one can get in. Now the prob is that this is a software mirrored machine with scsi disks.
Winternals ERD and most of the linux stuff cannot deal with software mirrors. Anyone know a way round this tricky one ?
What would happen if removed the mirrored disk and tried to boot off one, would it still appear as a mirrored disk and hence not accesable ?
Just posting this as a last desperate resort. The new boy here installed some software and rebooted the machine, seems he changed the admin password and no one can get in. Now the prob is that this is a software mirrored machine with scsi disks.
Winternals ERD and most of the linux stuff cannot deal with software mirrors. Anyone know a way round this tricky one ?
What would happen if removed the mirrored disk and tried to boot off one, would it still appear as a mirrored disk and hence not accesable ?
03 March 2004, 11:13 AM
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If the array is mirrored then the data will be identical on each drive..
Have you any access at all, ie local user/power user/local admin??
do you know what SP your running
Have you any access at all, ie local user/power user/local admin??
do you know what SP your running
03 March 2004, 11:26 AM
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Originally Posted by sti555
just a though but does the new boy not remember the admin password!
03 March 2004, 11:30 AM
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Domain: Use domain admin account & mmc to reset it
workgroup:
why not use dameware & reset the local account from another machine, will install remotely as long as no firewall software is running
try and open up a remote cmd console, think this was fixed in SP4 but try it
net user administrator newpasswordhere
hope that helps
ps
demote him to tea boy with immediate affect lol!
workgroup:
why not use dameware & reset the local account from another machine, will install remotely as long as no firewall software is running
try and open up a remote cmd console, think this was fixed in SP4 but try it
net user administrator newpasswordhere
hope that helps
ps
demote him to tea boy with immediate affect lol!
03 March 2004, 12:07 PM
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Originally Posted by sti555
Domain: Use domain admin account & mmc to reset it
workgroup:
why not use dameware & reset the local account from another machine, will install remotely as long as no firewall software is running
try and open up a remote cmd console, think this was fixed in SP4 but try it
net user administrator newpasswordhere
hope that helps
ps
demote him to tea boy with immediate affect lol!
workgroup:
why not use dameware & reset the local account from another machine, will install remotely as long as no firewall software is running
try and open up a remote cmd console, think this was fixed in SP4 but try it
net user administrator newpasswordhere
hope that helps
ps
demote him to tea boy with immediate affect lol!
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HI peeps,
In the end we had to break the mirror and re install. It wasn't pretty but we got there. He is now demoted btw
only kidding, but I think he learnt his lesson
In the end we had to break the mirror and re install. It wasn't pretty but we got there. He is now demoted btw
only kidding, but I think he learnt his lesson
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