[Samba] Voluntary Windows password change

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Feb 11 06:28:22 GMT 2002


On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Sanjiv Bawa wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible for Win2K and XP users to change their samba passwords at all
> > on the client side?
> 
> Yes.  Assuming its a PDC, then its just a Ctrl-Alt-Del -> Change
> Password away.
> 
> The protocols exist for password changing when not a PDC, but I'm not
> quite sure how you tell windows to use them.

Just set the machine name in the dialog box instead of the 
domain name.











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