You can reset the machine account password a few ways even for member servers:
1) Use nltest /SC_CHANGE_PWD:<DomainName> 2) Edit the following registry value setting it to 0 and then restart netlogon: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters \maximumpasswordage Be aware that if you have a policy set that does not allow a password to be changed more than once a day, i.e. a minimum password age that this will be enforced for machine accounts so you may need to disable that policy for you testing. Thanks, -Steve -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 5:16 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Machine account password Change I think there is a misunderstanding here.... NETDOM will not reset passwords of domain members. NETDOM RESET will reset the secure channel, that isn't the machine account password. NETDOM RESETPWD is only for domain controllers. I believe there is an API call to do this, I just don't think anyone has exposed it in a tool. joe -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Parag Nagwekar Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 6:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Machine account password Change Check this out http://support.microsoft.com/kb/216393/EN-US/ command is netdom reset 'machinename' /domain:'domainname' -Parag -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Manjeet Singh Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Machine account password Change For testing one of our product, I want to reset machine account password of my exchange member server. How can I do it manually? I set the maximum password age to 1 day. But I can not wait one day to run one test. I need to do it many time manually. Please help -Manjeet List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
