GLOBALLY CHANGING LOCAL ACCOUNT PASSWORDS 4

[billyb]

I need to change the administrator passwords for all our NT4 workstations. Without visiting all the workstations is there any other way of doing this ?

Any help appreciated

thanks
ian barker

 

[RedTech]

I normally don't refer people to software I don't currently use or have used in the past but... I just searched google... And the descriptions match.

http://www.admwin.com/umanu_ab.htm

which has as service account management as a small part of its functionality, specificially it can change passwords for many server accounts at once or change local Admin password on all your workstations at once.

http://www.danish-company.com/dcwcm/page/{4D40EC77-0788-48E7-9FB6-B81A51F70CD2}.html

If you have, lets say, 100 Windows NT® or Windows 2000® workstations, it can be a very time consuming task to change the local administrator account password on every one of them.
But with DCPC you don't have to go from one computer to the next anymore. You can change them all from your workstation. All you need is administrative privileges and DCPC.

And then there is perl scripts to help out.

http://www.roth.net/perl/adminmisc/

 

[johncurtis]

You can use the net user command. See

http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15069

for details.
Or you could use the cusrmgr.exe tool from the Win2000 resource kit.
See

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q272/5/30.ASP

John

 

[jaeddy]

You can also do this from User Manager for Domains from any NT Server- select user>change domain and enter \\computername to access the local sam on the workstation.