[Samba] Re: Unable to change Windows password on Samba BDC

[Dennis McLeod]

That's how this place was when I got here. The real issue was with
websurfing control. Current setup is restricting by ip address, not user
(they didn't exist before), so they set up static.
I setup a dhcp server, and used dynamically assigned static addresses for
those machines.
Gives me the flexibility to make these kind of changes.
AND registers with DNS....

Also, check out psexec to do this. (run the netsh command remotely..)
You can add it to a logon script and then kick off the logon script
remotely, or just run it remotely directly on each machine.

-----Original Message-----
From: samba-bounces+dmcleod=foranyauto.com at lists.samba.org
[mailto:samba-bounces+dmcleod=foranyauto.com at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of
Matt Anderson
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 2:49 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: [Samba] Re: Unable to change Windows password on Samba BDC

Chris Smith <smb23 <at> realcomputerguy.com> writes:
> I use a rule of thumb that with >=5 computers it saves much time and 
> trouble to use services such as dhcp, dns, wins, etc. Set up dhcp (and 
> dns is you don't have it), you will be glad you did.
> 

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the feedback -- I totally agree.  Unfortunately, our network
administrator doesn't feel the same way (that it's not too much trouble).
He has set up everything with static IP addresses for "security reasons" so
we don't have a DHCP server... and with that no DNS server, since Dynamic
DNS would require maintaining both the files for forward and reverse
lookup...

However, I have at least set up WINS on my Samba PDC :)

Thanks again,
Matt




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