[Samba] Unchangeable "Password must change: Fri, 13 Dec 1901 21:45:51 MET "

[harold.celie at bt.com]

Hello Group,

I've been reading many posts but i still don't have the answer to how to force a password change or set a password lifetime.

I'm using w2k clients which connect to a samba PDC version 3.0.10 on a basic SunOS 5.8 system, no ldap or so.
syncing the ux-passwords and the smb-passwords works perfect, 
but i can't get it working to force users to change passwords.

The command that should do this is ;
pdbedit -P "maximum password age" -C 5
I know this are seconds, but just for testing

Running this command as root gives;
root> pdbedit -P "maximum password age" -C 5
account policy value for maximum password age was 100
account policy value for maximum password age is now 5
root>

It does change the policy;
account policy value for maximum password age is 5

but nothing is changed when i give the pdbedit -v command.
When i run a pdbedit after i logged in/out as a user on the w2k system,
nothing has happened
the output is exactly the same as it was before.

root> pdbedit -v -u useraa
Unix username:        useraa
NT username:
Account Flags:        [U          ]
User SID:             S-1-5-21-4240529304-4054190640-1643903753-27306
Primary Group SID:    S-1-5-21-4240529304-4054190640-1643903753-1021
Full Name:
Home Directory:       \\server\useraa
HomeDir Drive:
Logon Script:
Profile Path:         \\server\useraa\profile
Domain:               NETDOM
Account desc:
Workstations:
Munged dial:
Logon time:           0
Logoff time:          Fri, 13 Dec 1901 21:45:51 MET
Kickoff time:         Fri, 13 Dec 1901 21:45:51 MET
Password last set:    Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:21:36 MET
Password can change:  Thu, 03 Mar 2005 17:21:36 MET
Password must change: Fri, 13 Dec 1901 21:45:51 MET
Last bad password   : 0
Bad password count  : 0
Logon hours         : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
root>

Selecting the option "change password at next logon" is usrmgr on the
w2k machine doesn't do the trick either.

Does anybody have a suggestion to get this running? Or is there another
way to force users once in a while to change password?
(maybe some command(s) i can put in cron)

All help is welcome

Thanks in advance

Harold