it is possible to restore lost XP credentals w/o loggin into the domain?

I have a user that cannot login to his local domain profile by using cached XP credentials. I think I messed him up by logging him on as the local admin to fix an issue, but was unable to have him log back in using his cached credentials.

The user is within our VPN, but due to routing, and have a samba 3.0 domain controller. I cant get him log to his local domain profile.

We have a company managing our network, actually two, and because we are not on AD, they cannot ( so they say) forward domain authincations across mutiple Subnets.

does anyone know how to restore lost credentals w/o loggin into the domain?

thanks

 

Logging in as the local admin shouldn't kill the cached account credentials.

One thing logging in as a local admin will do is change the domain on the log-in prompt to the local PC: could the problem simply be that the user isn't changing the domain drop-down back to the correct domain name before trying to log in?

 

Reggie,

Thanks for responding.
The user is very tech savy. He knows the difference. Plus I walked him through (remotely) the process of the log in process. He was abel to (with my help) set up a local admin account and move all his " stuff" to the new profile.

I wonder if it has any thing to do with NT4 domain security policies and XP cached credentials.

The only thing I know that will solve the problem is for him to come to corp and logon. that's a tough sell.

Still stumped.

David