Here's a free as in freedom and beer boot disk to recover NT passwords:

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

There are also a link somewhere on that page to a page that shows how to
recover AD passwords (YMMV).

I seem to remember that the default password to get into NAV Corporate
Edition is "symantec" (w/o the quotes).

HTH
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Gene Cronk - ISSAP,CISSP,NSA-IAM (gcronk (at) trsg (dot) net [email concealed])
The Robin Shepherd Group -- Systems Administrator
Office: (904)-359-0981 Ext. 36
Cell: (386)-795-3081 Web: http://www.trsg.net

Robert Ritchey wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> The network that I have is rather small. 1 server, and 4 workstations.
> I inherited the systems. There has been no administrator working there
> for a little over a year. What administrator that was there, was very
> much non-technical.
>
> When the network was built whoever built the server installed everything
> they possibly could. This system now how few main functions:
> 1. File server
> 2. Internet Gateway
> 3. Symantec Virus manager
>
> Nobody knows any of the passwords for anything on the system. Any of
> the passwords that are in use are not allowed administrator access. I
> do mean for anything! I can't even get Symantec to update virus
> signatures, as I do not have a password to do the update with. The
> signature is like 2003 date.
>
> It is just very frustrating!
>
> I am looking for options, before I have to go and reformat and rebuild.
> This would in some ways make life simpler, there are wrinkles in that
> all of there operational data and other services are on the server. We
> are currently moving foreword with a plan to rebuild. This will happen;
> I would rather pick the time to do it. Rather than have it forced on
> me.
>
> Does anyone know of any other way to take control of this machine and
> network.
>
> Thanks for your time and any ideas will be appreciated.
>
> Robert Ritchey
>
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Gene Cronk - ISSAP,CISSP,NSA-IAM (gcronk (at) trsg (dot) net [email concealed])
The Robin Shepherd Group -- Systems Administrator
Office: (904)-359-0981 Ext. 36
Cell: (386)-795-3081 Web: http://www.trsg.net

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