[Samba] loosing machine trust accounts

[Chan Min Wai]

Hi all,

Normally you shouldn't need to do that on windows.

As I know what this issue only happen to
Samba Domain member as you need to lock the password change...


On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 8:39 AM, Sapo <miguelmedalha at sapo.pt> wrote:

> > we are finding that probably 20% of windows 7 machines are loosing their
> > trust relationship. Machines that have been freshly joined to the domain
> > after a couple days display a message that the the security data base is
> no
> > longer trusted.
> >
> > Any idea what could be happening here?
>
> Client computers are periodically  changing their domain passwords. I
> suppose the default is 30 days. I don't know if this still happens with
> Samba 4.
>
> Put this on your Windows 7+ clients:
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters]
> "DisablePasswordChange"=dword:1
>
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