pthres
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A friend has recently bought a Win2K machine, upto now he's been logging into it no problem ( username and password already filled in ) so all he has to do is press enter. Now what has happened is he thought that he could make up his own password and name from the login dialog box, so he cleared them out and tried to enter his own ( which we all know is not possible with Win2k as it is with Win98 ) so now he's locked out of it.....He can't telephone the previous owner because he's moved to Spain!!!
So my question is this :-
he knows it was setup for networking but does not know the IP address or workgroup name, so what I want to know is if I then plug my Win2k laptop into it how do I find out these details ( reason being on my own system I have Admin rights, so in theory If I can set-up my own system to match his ip range and workgroup I could then remotely setup a user account and password that would allow him to log back in ) I've done this many times on my own network BUT I know the ranges and workgroup name so obviously this is easy..............
So my question is this :-
he knows it was setup for networking but does not know the IP address or workgroup name, so what I want to know is if I then plug my Win2k laptop into it how do I find out these details ( reason being on my own system I have Admin rights, so in theory If I can set-up my own system to match his ip range and workgroup I could then remotely setup a user account and password that would allow him to log back in ) I've done this many times on my own network BUT I know the ranges and workgroup name so obviously this is easy..............