Microsoft KB Archive/214480

= Err Msg: Incorrect Password or Unknown Username =

Article ID: 214480

Article Last Modified on 11/1/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 Developer Edition
 * Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q214480



SYMPTOMS
After you run the Convert.exe tool on the hard disk, you may receive the following error message:

Incorrect password or unknown username for:\\ \c$



RESOLUTION
To work around this behavior, remove the computer from the domain and then add it back to the domain:


 * 1) Click Start, click Run, type srvmgr, and then press ENTER.
 * 2) Click the computer that you want to remove, and then press DELETE.
 * 3) Click Yes, and then add the computer to the domain.

For information about how to add a computer to a domain, click Contents on the Help menu, click the Index tab, type adding, click Display, and then double-click the "Adding a Computer to the Domain" topic.

For additional information about this error message, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Prompted for Password When Connecting to Windows NT

Additional query words: reset machine account

Keywords: kberrmsg kbprb KB214480

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