On 22 Nov 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 12:13, John H Terpstra wrote: > > On 22 Nov 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote: > > > > > After a thorough google and marc search i'm shocked to find > > > this problem unmentioned... > > > > > > How does one go about changing the windows password from a unix machine > > > with no physical access to the windows machine sharing things? > > > > SWAT provides the password change facility you are looking for. > huh - swat? > i think swat is for configuring smb.conf, etc from a web broswer. > You can change the unix and samba passwords from swat but i don't know > of any way to change a remote windows password with swat (unless winbind > is in play)
Check the lower password change boxes in the SWAT password page. IT is specifically to allow user passwords on remote machines to be changed. - John T. > > > If you > > prefer a command line tool, smbpasswd has the same functionality - check > > the -U and -r options. The smbpasswd man page documents the password > > change options. > this is what i'm looking for - i expected the remote password changing > tools to part of smbclient but i guess it is just as logical for it to > be a part of smbpasswd. > > smbpasswd -r may work for me... > > thanks > > brad > -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
