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by olean26

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Ok here's the situation. Win 2000 laptop running Microsofts's Netware Client Service. The machine used to log into an NT domain at a customers site but now the domain no longer exists (start-up Co.) In any case when this guy used his laptop away from the office he still attempted to login to the domain but it eventually timed out (No PDC, BDC avaiable - used cached settings I guess) and still got in to local wkstation. The problem is now that the domain is gone AND he does not know any local user's passwords we can not get into the laptop with Administrative right - he gets a message - "Unable to log bcs. the netlogon service is not running on this machine."

I did some research on this and it sounds like the Client Service for NetWare is starting before netlog on but I can't fix it - NO rights to local machine.

*We can log on using an old domain user that has no Admin rts. but can not edit registry or disable CSNW. I have already attempted to crack the SAM using LophtCrack but no luck.

Any ideas on how to get into this machine with Admin rights??? Tons of apps. and docs.

Thanks...

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by curlergirl

Is there any way you could find out what the password was for the domain admin in the old domain? This just might get you in - in the normal course of setup, it's likely that the person setting up the laptop used the domain admin user ID and password to initially install the operating system and software. If so, this admin ID would still have rights to the local machine. If you can get this info, try logging on to the laptop with this ID and logging on to the local machine, not the domain. Unfortunately, the only other suggestion I would have involves exactly what you don't want to do - reinstall Win2K completely. You could do this without losing any files he has on the machine by installing to a different folder - this would get the machine to boot without wiping out everything that's already on it. Hope this helps!

by tony beresford

Try installing windows to an alternative location, For example winnt1. This will give you a choice when you reboot to load the second system. The admin user for the second Operating system should have the necessary rights to all files on the laptop.Once these files (and drivers!) have been copied away, rebuild the laptop from scratch.

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