Passwords for new machine accounts

Luke Howard lukeh at PADL.COM
Wed Mar 10 15:21:41 GMT 2004


>to what values should the passwords of new machine accounts be set?
>The command "smpasswd -a -m" sets them to the machine name. But I think
>NT4 workstations will have problems with this setting when joining the
>domain.
>There was a default password for NT4 that was the initial password for
>all NT4 workstation accounts. Does anybody remind it?

IIRC it is the lowercase machine name.

-- Luke



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