Joining an nth domain

I have a laptop that has cached credentials from a domain that no longer
exists (that is a server that was running win2k) and I want to join an
active domain (win2003).
My question is: if I join another domain, will I loose my cached
credentials, if so, is there a way to keep those credentials so I can log in
again locally to the laptop on the domain that doesn't exist?

Thanks,

Juan Carlos

Juan Carlos Bosacoma wrote:
> I have a laptop that has cached credentials from a domain that no
> longer exists (that is a server that was running win2k) and I want to
> join an active domain (win2003).
> My question is: if I join another domain, will I loose my cached
> credentials, if so, is there a way to keep those credentials so I can
> log in again locally to the laptop on the domain that doesn't exist?

You'll need to know the local admin credentials first, or you will lock
yourself out of your car. Presuming your cached credentials have local admin
rights, you can reset the local admin password on that computer. Then join a
workgroup, reboot, and join the new domain.

Your old profile will no longer be accessible, note - my suggestion is that
before you do anything, you redirect My Documents to point to somewhere
else, such as c:\data (move files), and make sure the local administrators &
users groups have ownership & NTFS permissions on that folder. Also might
want to copy over your favorites folder & any desktop-stored files to the
same place. You can sometimes copy a profile from one user to another, but
it usually causes problems IMO.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Juan Carlos