On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I also tried this to no avail: Disabled the machine password change on all > win7 clients by setting > > HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters > DisablePasswordChange = dword:1
If Win 7 is ignoring that setting, it might honor the one which sets the password change period. > MaximumPasswordAge determines when the computer password needs to be changed. > > Key = HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NetLogon\Parameters > Value = MaximumPasswordAge REG_DWORD > Default = 30 > Range = 1 to 1,000,000 (in days) > Group policy setting: > Computer Configuration\windows Settings\Security settings\Local > Policies\Security Options > Domain member: Maximum machine account Password age > To clear things up, it is 7 days on Windows NT by default, and 30 days on > Windows 2000 and up. > The trust password follows the same setting. So Trust between two NT 4 > domains is 7 days. Trusts between Windows 2000 and up and anything else is 30 > days. > > So what this means is if 2000 and NT4 trust password is 30 days. > > 2000 to 2000 is 30 days. > > 2000 to 2003 is 30 days. > > 2003 to 2003 is 30 days. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
