How to reset password for a user in NT 4.0 domain?

[rg080]

Hi,

I have few users in the NT 4.0 domain DOM. These users will not login to the domain but they login to a workgroup and map a drive to server in domain DOM. I am wondering how they can change their domain password?. If they login to domain then there was not problem at all but in my situation they will not login to domain.

Please give your suggestions.

Regards

 

[neoice]

I am slightly confused as to what you want to achieve. Can you explain further and I might be able to assist you.

regards,

Neil

 

[Kjonnnn]

What is it you think changing their password would do?

Your domain Admin can change their passwords. See that person.

 

[zoeythecat]

There is no way they can change their password without first logging onto the Domain first. The problem is if you have a password policy set on the domain when their password expires they will have problems connecting to the mapped drive and then their user account may get locked out. If they need to work in the local workgroup then the best method would be to check the "password never expires" on their user account on the server. You may also want to have their local password that they use to login to the workgroup be the same as the password they use to login to the domain otherwise you may have problems. If you set the local password as "password never expires" and you set their domain password to "password never expires" and you have the passwords as identical than this would work. But if you need the password policy in place then the best method would be to have them login to the domain and not the workgroup. This is just the way NT works. If you had Windows2000 Pro workstations (I am assuming all your workstations are NT workstation?)you could work around this by giving them Admin privleges to the domain but you still would not be able to change the password unless you are logged into the domain.