[Samba] window 2000 policy changes with a samba pdc

2003-10-18 Thread Gordon Heydon
Hello, With the release of samba 3.0 I was vey excited with the new features and decided to experiment with it. I set my server up as a pdc which I am still working out some of the bugs but all and all I have it going and have a windows 2000 pro client join the domain and login and out very

Re: [Samba] window 2000 policy changes with a samba pdc

2003-10-18 Thread John H Terpstra
On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Gordon Heydon wrote: Hello, With the release of samba 3.0 I was vey excited with the new features and decided to experiment with it. I set my server up as a pdc which I am still working out some of the bugs but all and all I have it going and have a windows 2000 pro

Re: [Samba] window 2000 policy changes with a samba pdc

2003-10-18 Thread Gordon Heydon
hello, Thanks for this, but from what I can tell I need to change the domain's password policy for windows 2000 computers. In the how to it says I need to run the Active Directory Users and Computers so I can edit the group policy. Thanks * John H Terpstra ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, 18

Re: [Samba] window 2000 policy changes with a samba pdc

2003-10-18 Thread John H Terpstra
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003, Gordon Heydon wrote: hello, Thanks for this, but from what I can tell I need to change the domain's password policy for windows 2000 computers. In the how to it says I need to run the Active Directory Users and Computers so I can edit the group policy. To create a

Re: [Samba] window 2000 policy changes with a samba pdc

2003-10-18 Thread Gordon Heydon
Hello, I triied this, but it didn't work. Basically I am triing to follow the Administration of Windows 200x/XP Policies to edit policy so that I can turn off password expiry, but when I follow the instructions it doen't work. I would prefer a method of doing this under linux, as it is hard for

Re: [Samba] window 2000 policy changes with a samba pdc

2003-10-18 Thread Andrew Bartlett
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 07:37, Gordon Heydon wrote: Hello, I triied this, but it didn't work. Basically I am triing to follow the Administration of Windows 200x/XP Policies to edit policy so that I can turn off password expiry, but when I follow the instructions it doen't work. I would

Re: [Samba] window 2000 policy changes with a samba pdc

2003-10-18 Thread Gordon Heydon
hello, Thanks, this I what I wanted, I want to turn off password expiry, I see there is the -P and -C so I assume I run the following command pdbedit -P maximum password age -C -1 account policy value for maximum password age is now 4294967295 I think this has set it to unlimited? Thanks