Corrupt Pc Accounts and Resetting a machine account password....

[pcjunkey]

Hey Guys -
A couple days ago I posted a question about computer accounts becoming corrupt on our win2k server. Mysteriously they would randomly disable their own computer accounts. I am not on site, and don't have the event logs but I think I found a solution.

I think their machine account passwords have changed....thereby not allowing them to correctly authenticate themselves through the secure channel in netlogon.

See:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;216393

and

http://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/ArticleID/15373/15373.html

and

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;154501

anyway....

Like I said, I'm not on site and I'm looking to see if any domain admins know how to force this change without using netdom. The problem is netdom will sync with active directory and everything will work as planned, if I could remove the pc from the network, change the security id, and see if it that actually is the problem, I could utilize the registry hack in the last article...

Thanks