leaving and rejoining domain

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, David Bannon wrote:

> At 09:40 AM 17/12/1998 +1100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> >> But there are lots of other times when this is a real pain. Because the
> >> same effect shows up when updating a version of samba that has been in
> >> operation for a period of time, we need to do this on EVERY NT in the
> >> domain when we upgrade samba.
> >
> >why??? i have never needed to do this.
> 
> I suspect it depends on how long a particular version is running ? Is that
> possible ? 

i don't think so.  password change NetSrvPwSet time is set to 1 week,
isn't it jeremy?

> On my play machine that I am testing for a computer lab next
> year, I update pretty often and don't need to do the above. However, on two
> production machines that may go some months without being upgraded, I most
> certainly need to do that with the NT's. When does the NTWS decide it must
> change its passwd ? And more importantly, why does it so decide ?

hm.  you may have a point, here...