Originally posted by slarty
There are many available tools which will recover a *local* admin password on winNT4/Win2k

The one we use here is

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/index.html

The "Offline NT password and registry editor"

This works on win2k, however it will not change domain passwords - LOCAL USERS ONLY.

With this you can change the admin password and recover access to the system without having to reinstall - we have found it to be most useful.

Regards
Mark
SLARTY, you are right. After numerous problems with server farm at my work (sys admin left, bogus accounts, multiple domains, you name it), with absolutely NO clues about passwords, I was able to bring all my servers up.

Situation was: 4 NT domains, 1 that I knew admin password for, 9 servers (4 PDCs, 3 BDCs), and I could access only my domain with 1 PDC and 1 BDC. Horrible. Guy left, and didn't leave ANYTHING to start from.

So, i turned to http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/index.html and it worked like a charm.

Now, for win2k, I only used it on Pro version (laptop), and it ALSO worked, so my guess is: make 2 floppies, and enjoy!

Oh, if it's Win2k AS, I think you can't have pwd just blank, so make sure you CHANGE it to something that has at least 6 chars. In my case, I learned it hard way - my NT 4 Ent. Srvr. - I had to have pwd of at least 6 chars or it would report bad pwd. heh...

Good luck.

A.