How does Samba determine when to change the machine account password?

[Hemanth Thummala]

Richard,

we have smb.conf parameter called "machine password timeout" determines the
next password change time.
This by default set to 604800 secs which is 1 week.

Thanks,
Hemanth.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com
> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 01:00:11PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> How does Samba determine this?
> >
> > Just a timer. I vaguely recall it being
> > set to 1 week.
>
> Hmmm, wonder if Domain member: Max machine account password age
> impacts that on the DC?
>
> --
> Regards,
> Richard Sharpe
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>