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-ADMINISTRATOR-Password-Reset-Recovery-Software_W0QQitemZ300123044842QQihZ020QQcategoryZ3806QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[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?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=6231

[BKGarry]

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

[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

[srochford]

That is really weird and suggests that something is deeply wrong!

 

It is possible to remove "domain admins" from the local administrators group but it's not something you'd normally want to do because it means you lose remote management etc

 

If "domain admins" is a member of the local administrators group then I'm not sure why you can't manage it remotely but I would worry about that :-)

[altecsole]

You could add a Startup script via a group policy that adds the domain admin to the local group. For example, here is how you'd do it with a batch file:

 

net localgroup Administrators "Your_Domain\Domain Admins" /add

 

You can also do this via Restricted groups using group policy. As I said before, we also use a startup script batch file to set the local Administrator password. In this way we can change it across the domain when we feel the need.

[witch]

Well, thanks everyone - I finally managed to sort it out.

I used the disk booting password cracker

 

I have also managed to sort out the problem about no domain admin

 

 

Probably good that I had this problem or I would not have known about the domain admin stuff!

So, it's all good

 

Thanks very much - panic over

(I subdued the teaching hordes by bringing in home made cakes, which distracted them long enough for me to sort out the problem!)

[Ric_]

@WITCH: You can also use that password cracker to scare people who think all their lovely pictures and MP3s are safely hidden because they have a Windows password :twisted:

[alonebfg]

you should not need that if you have admin rights as from the server you can scan and we run a script to take ownership of all files and folders. so getting those mp3s and bad files is easy.

[witch]

I'll remember that

[Ric_]

you should not need that if you have admin rights as from the server you can scan and we run a script to take ownership of all files and folders. so getting those mp3s and bad files is easy.

 

Ah... but for their home PCs :twisted: