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• Cancel Connection Information
• Change NT Password from Win95 Machine
• Change User Rights
• Create a List of Available Workstations
• Deleting Orphan Shares
• Determine if 95 User is Logged into a Network
• Determine if a Server is a PDC
• Determine if a User is Connected to a Server
• Determine NT Admin Rights
• Display a policy statement before logon
• Distinguish between NT 4 Server and Workstation
• Enable MSClient
• Get a List of Attached Servers to NT Server
• Get NT Users Primary Domain
• Get remote user name
• How to Create NT Groups
• How to Get Domain Controller of Authenticating Server
• Install apps on NT without system admin priviledge
• Itemize Network Services
• List Members in an NT Domain
• List of Users Who Have Group Access
• Listing Hidden Shares
• Look up Access Permissions to an NT Resource
• Map Drive to NetLogon Share Handles Z Drive
• Map Root and Map to Share under NT and 95
• Network invalid error
• NTFS - POSIX subsystem and Case Sensitivity
• NTFS Detection
• Only Map Drive when Its Not
• Refresh Group Policy using SecEdit
• Remove Workstation from a Domain
• Retrieve a List of Computer Accounts on NT Domain
• Set up User with Grant DialIn Permissions Set
• UDF -GetUserNameEx
• Why Do Certain Win32 Apps Misbehave in NT Services
• WWNET32I Extender with Older WinBatch
• wxxFileUsers Functions
• wXXGetUser and Netname

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Change NT Domain Password From Windows 95

Keywords:    NT password

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Question:

How do you change NT password from a Win95 workstation?

Answer:

The best (only?) way to change an NT password from a Win95 workstation is with the command line options. For this example, assume your PDC is Mydomain, the userid is user, old password is oldpass and the new password is newpass, this would be the command line syntax:

	net password \\mydomain user oldpass newpass

Note: the important thing to remember is that you can change an NT password ONLY on a PDC, unless you directly login to a BDC, i.e. it has to be on your subnet. The other thing to remember is that you have to wait for replication to occur, otherwise you may not be able to access the server when you first change your password.

I have the above code in a batch file that I RunHide from within Winbatch. It uses environment variables to pass the Winbatch script created variables (userid, oldpassword, newpassword) to the batch file. It also writes an errorlevel to an INI file which I create and then check inside the script for errors which indicate if the change was successful or not. This is then used to change other passwords, if successful, or give back an error to the user and prompt them to try again if unsuccessful.

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Article ID:   W13524

Filename:   Change NT Password from Win95 Machine.txt

File Created: 1999:04:15:16:54:36

Last Updated: 1999:04:15:16:54:36