See the tutorials at www.homenethelp.com

Steve

Start at - http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net.asp 

Steve

There's alot there and the website is a bit disorganized. Can you be alittle more specific please?

I followed the steps in that tutorial. When I rebooted after changing the workgroup on the XP Pro machine (the laptop) I could not log on at all. It said "The system could not log you on. Make sure your user name and domain are correct" etc.. No matter what I tried I could not log on to that machine anymore.

- Dave

Try booting into Safe Mode to see if you can change it there.

Steve

It sounds like you mistakenly set you computer up to be a member of a domain rather than a workgroup. On any computer that you did this on, go to Start > Control Panel > System and click on the Computer Name tab.  Then click on the Change button, and slect Workgroup instead of Domain.  Make sure all computers are in the same Workgroup.

Steve

I followed the directions exactly as they were given. But it's irrelevant now. I can't log onto the computer now so I can't get to the start button or anything else.

Nope. Couldn't get in with Safe Mode either.

- Dave

 

Message Edited by volcano11 on 02-05-2004 08:59 AM

I know what I did wrong.  I left out a detail in my original post that changes things and makes the process given at http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net.asp the incorrect process.  That detail is as follows:

The laptop is used at work and is part of the domain at the office.  Using the tutorial above moves the computer out of it's domain and messes things up.  I need to share the files at home without messing around with the domain setting.

- Dave

PS - The logon problem was resolved by logging in as admin and doing a system restore.