Just for your info, there is a thing such as .SAM files, MS office uses them extensively, what they do for office I don't know. Also lmhosts.sam is located in the system32\drivers folder. As you probably know its just the sample lmhosts file. But in the sense you were talking about, your correct.
Jim -----Original Message----- From: H C [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Unwanted programs on Win2K Gedi, For the sake of accuracy: > However, the easiest is to crack the .SAM file. "Easiest" is relative. I'd go w/ the Linux bootdisk and utility to change the password. Also, there is no such thing as a ".SAM" file...it's just "SAM". > If your admins are usless you may be lucky and find a > backup copy in the repair folder (c:\WINNT\repair) Denigrating the admins aside, the backup copy of the SAM is just that...a backup copy. If the passwords on the local system are changed, but the repair disk utility isn't run, the backup will be completely useless to you. The backup copy of the SAM isn't backed up automatically...you have to run the rdisk utility. > For this you will need a copy of NTFSDOS (I'm assuming > the file system is NTFS) While this is one way to do it, the Linux bootdisk is freely available, easy to make, and results in local Administrator access much quicker than trying to crack the SAM file that may not even include a current password. Just an FYI... __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com