Re: Novell/Windows 2003 PW Syncing problem



David Gersic wrote:
On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:15:02 -0400, Bill <edison@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

please forgive my ignorance here as I know nothing about NDS. We installed a new Dell 2850/Win 2003 imaging server. The XP scanning stations connect UNC drive mapping and all have the standard Netware
client installed. Every 45 days, Netware forces the users to change passwords which undoes the sync between our windows clients (scanning stations) and the server, so our UNC drive mappings no longer work.


I'm inferring from this that your users have Windows passwords as well,
but that they're not being changed at the same time as your NDS password.
Is that correct?

In fact the novell client changes the windows passwords automatically in order to make windows login automatic. This is the root of the problem because now the windows password that gets shipped to the server is incorrect and the drive map doesn't happen.




order to fix this, we'd have to add users to the server and manually update their passwords every 45 days.


Add users to which server?

The imaging server but I'm trying to avoid that.



There has to be utility that does this or another way around...I just can't find it. A kick in the right
direction would be much appreciated!


There are several possibilities here, but they depend on knowing what you have and how it works.

What version of NetWare are you using? What service pack is installed?
If you don't know, go to the console and type "version" at the prompt.
Post the results.

Client is 4.83 SP3 and 4.90 SP2

Your new Win2003 server, how are your users logging in to it? I'm assuming
that you're using the MS client for MS networking, which would lead me to
think that you have it installed so that there are users defined in the
MS network.

We don't actually log in to it at the moment- we map the server folder we need to access using a single account name and password with assigned permissions. This is what we want to change.


Maybe.



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