[Samba] Machine account pasword change failed (NT 4)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 17:59, David Wilson wrote:
> Hi guys and girls,
> 
> I run a Samba-3.0 PDC for N.T. workstations on a Slackware Linux box.
> I often see the following error in the N.T. workstation's event log:
> Changing machine account password for account "xxxxx$" failed with the
> following error:
> The handle is invalid.
> 
> Any ideas what this could be ?
> I'm not using PAM in any way.

You really are going to need to get the server's log, to make any sense
of it.  Getting an ethereal trace can help too - the nltest.exe utility
(NT resourse kit, I think) will help a lot here.

Andrew Bartlett

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