machine account passwords questions

[Dave Daugherty]

The "windows default" is every 28 days

Samba will decide when to initiate the password change based on the
setting in smb.conf " machine password timeout"

You can use net changesecretpw to initiate the process




> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:09 PM
> To: samba tech
> Subject: machine account passwords questions

> How often does the machine account password get changed when you
> have joined a domain? Is there a way on the DC to force this to
> happen so I can see what actually takes place? Does winbindd get
> this command or is it only smbd that updates secrets.tdb?