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

[Matt Anderson]

Dennis McLeod <dmcleod <at> foranyauto.com> writes:

> 
> 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.
> 

Hi Dennis,

Thanks for your input... I appreciate it!  That sounds like it would make life a
bit less trouble indeed.  I'll have to look into that and pass it on to our
network administrator, and maybe I can convince him :)

Thanks again,
Matt