Until they invent the ITVP (Intention Transfer and Validation Protocol), I have to assume that a given request is valid unless and until it contains enough internal inconsistencies to be fairly obvious. Goodness knows I've certainly sent out my share of queries over the years that, looking back on them after all was said and done, could have been (and may very well have been) thought of as dodgy.
-- Devin L. Ganger Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3Sharp LLC Phone: 425.882.1032 15311 NE 90th Street Cell: 425.239.2575 Redmond, WA 98052 Fax: 425.702.8455 (e)Mail Insecurity: http://blogs.3sharp.com/blog/deving/ -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Harvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 6:26 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Help needed Importance: High Michael, Assuming this isn't a domain level account (and is just a nice local account), then a tool like ntpasswd will do you nicely for resetting the password. If you have another account with admin access on the box, then you can reset the password that way as well. If it's a domain level account, and you have another domain admin, the solution is similarly simple, just reset the password in Active Directory. As for your .pst file, I'm pretty sure it lives in the Local Settings folder in your profile folder, wherever that is on your setup (my only experience is with roaming profiles, so I'm not much help to you there). To the rest of the list: Doesn't this smell like a social engineering attempt to you? I'm not saying it is, and I do not mean to offend Michael, but my mind instantly jumped to social engineering. "How do I recover my password" is often "How do I crack someone else's password". I suppose if we're just looking for .pst files, it's harmless enough, and seems fairly legitimate, but there is something at the back of my mind saying "wait a moment". Just my thoughts, Andrew On 06/08/2006, at 10:56 AM, Michael Mooney wrote: > Hi All. > Hope that someone can save me some time and reduce some stress. > > A friend of mine changed their Administrator password and then > forgot what > it was. > They called Dell for an assist and Dell suggested they create > another user > account with admin privileges. > That worked fine and they were able to get into the system. > HOWEVER, when they tried accessing Outlook, all the email was gone > as well > as the address book. > They've checked the directories and done searches (.pab and .pst) > and all > without success. > > Any assistance would be most deeply appreciated. > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
