question about machine hostid in smbpasswd Samba 2.0.6a

[Elrond]

On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 02:42:50AM +1000, Paul J Collins wrote:
> >>>>> "Simo" == Simo Sorce <simo.sorce at polimi.it> writes:
> 
>     Simo> Paul J Collins wrote:
>     >> To the best of my knowledge, this is initiated by the server,
>     >> and there is an smb.conf setting to change the interval (this
>     >> came up when TNG's password changing didn't work).
> 
>     Simo> I'm not sure, I think it is changed by the machine.
> 
> Me either, but I thought I remembered Luke mentioning some smb.conf
> parameter to control this.
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It is the client (domain member), that changes the
trustaccount password.


And I've heard, there's a registry option to stop it from
doing it. If someone knows it, please speak up! (I know
someone who uses it. I'm trying to reach him, but this
seems more difficult then expected)

Theres also the server side: AFAIK, the server "wants" the
members to change their password. If they don't do it in a
specific time, their trustaccount is locked or something
like that. I don't know either precisely, how to change
that.


The only smb.conf option, I know of in this area is
"machine password timeout", which defaults also to a week,
but is for samba as a domain member (samba as a client).


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    Elrond