[Samba] Time synchronization and Password Policies

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Tue Nov 21 09:34:29 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 21-11-2017 4:40, Anantha Raghava via samba wrote:
> 
> /*Password Policies*/
> 
> Password policies are not getting enforced on the clients. Initially we 
> thought that we have to set those policies using "samba-tool user 
> passwordsettings" and not on Windows GPO. As this was not enforcing the 
> password policies, we set the GPO with the same settings. Yet the same 
> result. Password Policies are not getting applied.
> 
> We have three domain controllers in out environment.

No expert, and please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but:

I think the samba-tool user passwordsettings are local-DC-specific, so 
you need to run it on all your DCs.
Could it be that you configured only one DC, and your password change 
happens to be talking with a different DC..?

MJ



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