Catti wrote:
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> No worries, Chris. I spoke too soon when I said SR fixed the problem. I
> just wasted half the morning here at work dicking around trying to log in
> to our domain, the domain and local user account passwords didn't match,
> and it's impossible to reset the local user account password in this
> crappy O/S without a "password reset disk" - which it won't allow you to
> create without logging on.
>
> Now my user profile is fried, I've had to create a new one, then
> reconfigure this thing (again) just so I can do my work, and reinstall
> half of my programs as well.
>
> My colleague is laughing at me for taking on this OS to evaluate. He was
> going to buy a Vista laptop for home use, now he's getting a macbook. Me
> too.
>
> And I've already contacted our reseller to buy another copy of XP Pro to
> put on this thing. Either that or I'll be evaluating Debian next...
>[/color]
I think you'll find Ubuntu easier than Debian if this is your first
excursion into the GNU/Linux world.

[url]http://www.ubuntu.com[/url]

Cheers.
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> "Chris" wrote:
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>> Catti,
>>
>> SR is disabled so that will not do me any good. I have another laptop on
>> its way so I will not have to worry about this. It would be nice though
>> to know a fix other than having to use SR.
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