Thank you John R. I will try that now

"John R" wrote:

> 1st. You could simply change the domain back to the old one, log back into
> the old profile, run the files and settings tranfer wizard and save the old
> profile, change the domain name back to the new one, log on, and run the
> files and settings transfer wizard again and import the profile.
>
> 2nd. If both domains are A/D, use the Active Directory Migration Tool to
> migrage the machine to the new domain.
>
> 3rd. Check out the 'moveuser' command in the 2003 support tools kit.
>
> John R
>
> "virira" <virira@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:D0AD460F-55E8-4D12-BD86-9A9635801D3F@microsoft.com...
> > Good day
> >
> > In trying to join a Windows XP SP2 HP laptop (with a different domain
> > name)
> > to my domain (Windows Server 2003 SP1), I just went straight to the My
> > Computer, Right-clicked and changed its previous domain name to my current
> > one.
> >
> > I had hoped to keep this user's profile when the laptop now connects to my
> > current domain. But alas, I ended up failing to login.
> > Now the user can no longer access his profile.
> >
> > As a temporary solution, I used the administrator account on the laptop to
> > log into the system and then created a new user account which
> > authenticates
> > to my current domain. Then I had to copy his old documents and e-mail
> > folder
> > and restored them in this new profile.
> >
> > I wanted to find out if there is a way of reversing the very initial
> > changes
> > that I made and propably restoring the old user profile and laptop to its
> > previous domain?
> >
> > Can someone help please?
>
>
>