Re: How to change Windows server 2003 Domain User password?
- From: "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" <lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:33:06 -0400
Raghav <Raghav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,
I am using Windows Xp pro SP2 as a client to connect to Windows
Server 2003 domain. i also have windows 98 machines as clients in
same domain.
You should start planning to replace those computers with ones running a
currently supported, and suitable, workstation OS - it's 2007 now, and Win9x
was never a good corporate workstation platform. Stick with NT-based OSes.
While i have setup domain on win 98 machines so every time while
logging they ask for domain id and pass, i haven't done so on xp
machines because they were taking too long to log on and being used
by multiple users it created too many users.
Not sure what you mean by "created too many users...." you need as many user
accounts as you have users, unless you want them all to share one domain
account, which doesn't make a lot of sense.
Join your XP/2k/Vista workstations to the domain and show the users how to
log in with their own accounts - that's the best way to do this.You're kinda
defeating the whole point of AD by configuring it as you are doing.
Now what i have done is to put all the computers on same work group
(so as to communicate in lan),
Don't use a workgroup when you have AD. I realize that for the Win9x
computers you have no choice, but for them, make the workgroup name match
the domain name, and make the network /ldomain login the primary one. Sounds
like you've done that already.
and winxp machines have shortcut to
server's hard disk, so when ever i try to access files on the domain
server it asks for the password then and it gives me access.
If the user logs into the domain on the XP workstation, they will not be
prompted for credentials - they can access whatever their domainaccount has
permissions to access on the server(s).
If they're logging into a local account, create an AD user with the same
name & password and they won't be prompted. But this is unwise from pretty
much every viewpoint I can think of.
Do you
have a better way to do this?
Yep - see above.
ALSO i have security policy which asks
the domain users to change password every 15 days. while win 98 users
get a dialog that password is expired and gives a option to change
it, Winxp users don't get any notification and no option to change
password. how do i do this in winxp and change password? Please Help.
Well, with the setup you've got now, your WinXP users aren't logging into
the domain, so there's no way they will ever be prompted. Once they are
logging into the domain as themselves, they will be prompted.
BTW, a 15-day password expiration pretty much guarantees annoyed end users,
and probably a lot of "sticky note" password reminders on monitors. 60 days
would probably be the minimum I'd recommend.
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