Local Administrator Password

[witch]

There I was, merrily putting the teacher's laptops on the domain, knowing that I knew the Dell local admin password, happy as a bee, when...
I moved to a non-Dell computer attached to a whiteboard (teacher has no laptop) and put it on the domain...when I realised that I don't know the admin password!
I have tried all the usual suspects with no luck.
I am in deep do-do here as you cannot access the C drive (where all the teacher's stuff is stored) except locally.
Can anyone help
Or just shoot me

Sarah

[dave.81]

Can you not give your self access to C drive using GPO or similar and copy all the work off?

Does the teacher know the password by some chance? Sure u've already checked.

[FN-GM]

i do know this works i have used it

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Windows-ADMINI...QQcmdZViewItem

[altecsole]

We change our local administrator password using a startup script when necessary.

Add the following to a batch file:

net user Administrator new_password

[webman]

Why pay when you can get it for free? Offline NT Password & Registry Editor.

[Geoff]

This boot disk will reset the admin password to whatever you want.

http://home.eunet.no/pnordahl/ntpasswd

[Andie]

Although I asked a slightly different question in an earlier posting, I got lots of replies telling me how to change the local admin password and to ignore the nasty warnings when I did so. The thread is below:

http://www.edugeek.net/index.php?nam...ewtopic&t=6231

[BKGarry]

Can you not change it by going to the computer management consol as a domain admin? Thats whats I do

[Galway]

Cant you just login and change the local password through control panel? Or create another local admin account ?

[witch]

Thanks
If I log on to the network on the machine, I cannot see anything at all in the users except me and the guest. So I cannot change the password there.
BKGarry: I don't know what you mean - I could change the domain admin password from my console but nothing local.
The boot disk sounds good

You have all reduced my level of panic a bit - doing that a lot lately - must need a holiday!
I'll let you know

[Andie]

When you are a one-person-outfit, panicking goes with the job!!!!

Oh...that's just me then......

I know I found a way to get at the local admin user from the domain when I had my problem, and started trying to change the password. I'll check it out tomorrow if there are no emergencies.

[Ric_]

UBCD (at http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html ) is your friend... 'Offline Password Recovery' (or words to that effect).

Or as a domain admin right-click My Computer and select Manage... local users is on there and you can do all manner of things

[witch]

No mate - I'm not quite THAT dumb!
The way our system is set up, I cannot get to the local users.

I did try that, honest!
Thanks for the link though

[PiqueABoo]

The way our system is set up

Why...?? What's wrong with a system where domain admins are local admins and can Manage local users (remotely )?

[witch]

Probably nothing - but as I didn't chose the system and cannot seem to change it - I am stuck with what I have got until I figure it out
Up until Easter, I was working on a WIN98 system anyway in this school so the stuff about local users etc just didnt raise its head
Now it has so I intend to do something about it