machine passwd

[Wingate, Steve [IBM NON J&J]]

I read an article in a recent Windows NT magazine stating that computers
change their own domain computeraccount password every 7 days. Disconnecting
a machine (laptop user for example) from the domain for longer than this
period can cause login errors. I can't recall the exact error but something
along the lines of 'computer trust account being broken or no longer
established'. 

Steve Wingate, MCSE
IBM Global Services
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sebastien Corriveau [SMTP:sebastien.corriveau at courrier.usherb.ca]
> Sent:	Thursday, September 16, 1999 2:06 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject:	Re: machine passwd
> 
> peter pilsl wrote:
> > 
> > in my nt-syslog I found the following entry:
> > changing password for computeraccount $HOST failed.
> > 
> > so it seems NT wanted to change its machinepassword on serverside
> automatically ..
> > is this normal ? and is it normal that this fails ?
> 
> Yep, this is normal but it can be deactivated by some settings in the
> registry.
> 
> But I don't remember where :-( (I think I've seen it at www.jsiinc.com )
> 
> Sebas.
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