Hi, I've spend dozens of hours on this (I have an ex-company laptop - legit - with XP, member of co. domain, complicated by also having corporate Symantec antivirus). I have tried to 'un-join' the domain and the m/c is now not quite a brick but definitely a basket case (so I suggest you work with a cloned m/c or a VM). I am not a Windows domain expert so some of the following may be rubbish: As a minimum you need to: Create a new user who is not a domain member (???) i.e bloggs instead of bloggs@domain. Copy old users doc / email / app data / etc. directories to the new user. Join the computer to a workgroup - this is *supposed* to unjoin it from the domain. Delete the old user - if they're still there.
As I said this didn't really work for me, but Symantec may be the culprit. After hours of Googling I did find a site that recommended using nLite to slipstream the OS, there is supposed to be an Advanced option to drop the domain/ workgroup. N.B. I haven't tried it. enjoy! AndyD 8-)₹ On 19:59, Mike Copeland wrote: > <snip> > > My question is: > If I set a Windows XP workstation to no longer use a domain...but to go > the network workgroup route, will the existing data (email, > spreadsheets, etc.) that is available to and physically located on the > WinXP workstation still be avialable if the domain goes away? > > My fear is that the answer is no. > <snip> > > Mike Copeland > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
