No admin access.

[Janufa]

Hi there,

A rather stupid problem: I gave the, renamed, admin account a new password and somehow i made a stupid mistake anyway now i get a wrong password error.

I am still more or less alive because i do run also w2k3 server on the same machine, mulitboot, on a different parition with a corrupt AD, but it runs.

Is there a possibility to access the server and workaroud de password error. Can i access the dbase running the w2k3 on the another partion?

Any help is welcome,
Many thanks in advance


the setup:

small homenetwork
one dc w2k3
one 9x client
four xp clients

 

[packdragon]

Do you have any other accounts in the Administrator group? Logging in as one of those would allow you to reset the password for the renamed admin account. You probably already thought of that, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

- Zoe, that's ZOH-EEE, get it right please
- Just a little ol' MCP at Solien Technology
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http://www.solien.com

 

[Janufa]

Yes i did, but the renamed admin account is the only account with more than userrights and no other account than the admin is allowed to login locally. The users can only access sources with are relevant for them. I was so silly not to make a second account with admin rights.

I did have a linux boot disk witch could tackle the problem, but did never, exept a test, used it and now it seems corrupt: it does not boot.

So i have to work around or have to install it again from scratch???

 

[packdragon]

You can download another Linux boot disk easily if the one you have seems to have gone bad. Refer to

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

for downloads as well as articles on how to recover your admin password.

- Zoe, that's ZOH-EEE, get it right please
- Just a little ol' MCP at Solien Technology
-

http://www.solien.com

 

[Janufa]

Many thaks for this link!!!
In a few moments i will receive visit. I will work with it tomorrow and will let you know or i was sucessfull.

 

[j93saturn]

I'm not sure if I read your post right, but if you have another user that is a domain admin, you can log on to a workstation and use the net user command prompt command to change the admin's password. do a "net user /?" for the proper syntax.



James
MCP, MCSE

 

[Janufa]

Hi James,

Thanks. Iám familiar with net *. Sadly i do not have a another user with * admin rights, so i have to workaround with the linux tools packdragon offered.