Off Topic : Machine account passwords

[Martyn Ranyard]

This isn't a samba bug, I know, but I wonder if anyone has found a way of 
getting an NT4 WKS machine to join the domain without changing profiles 
about - This is the scenario :

Local profiles on the NT4 machines, (We specifically want this - our apps 
are on the clients, so there's no advantage to roaming, but the process of 
transferring files people put on the desktop causes huge network delays on 
logon/off)

We had a server crash and rebuilt the linux server, including samba, but 
the machines already had accounts in the domain.  To leave the domain and 
rejoin always moves local profiles about - i.e. my username is mranyard, my 
profile directory is called mranyard.  If I leave the domain and rejoin it, 
my profile directory is mranyard.001

I have a work-round, which is to delete the machine accounts, which then 
allows people to log on with their original account, with the error "No 
domain controller found", but if there is an account, then it errors with 
"account invalid" and doesn't let you in.  Is there a way of resetting the 
password back to the hash of the netbios name, so we can sync with the 
server?  Is there another way?

Thanks in advance


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Martyn Ranyard