By default machine account passwords are changed ever 7 days in MS world. you can change this via the "machine password timeout" smb.conf parameter. Hope this helps, Don
> -----Original Message----- > From: Joey Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 20:10 > To: Gerald (Jerry) Carter > Cc: Chere Zhou; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to verify the domain secret is good or bad? > > > > > "Gerald (Jerry) Carter" wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > Also, sometimes I saw problems like "wbinfo -t" just says > "secret is bad", > > > when all the daemons were running. It sure was good at > some point before. > > > > Samba periodially changes the password on the server. > secrets.tdb should > > be in sync with this. > > Hi, > > Why does Samba do this? Does the secret expire after a certain period > of time or is this done as a safety precaution? > > thanks, > Joey. >
