[THIN] Re: OT: VMWare, Computer Accounts, and Snapshots

  • From: Jeremy Saunders <jeremy.saunders@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 22:21:45 +0900

Good information Roger. We had exactly the same problem with a customers
packaging server today. I will be fixing it tomorrow morning. I assume I
can just use the NETDOM RESETPWD command to fix it. Is that what you did,
or was it easier to just add it back into the Domain?

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FYI – we use one of our VMs for testing application deployment. It seemed
that after a period of time when I would revert to a snapshot on that VM
that I could no longer log in to the domain. It turns out the password on
the computer account had changed too many times. To prevent this, I made
the following change in the registry of that computer:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters]
"DisablePasswordChange"=dword:00000001

Anyway, hope this may help somebody else that might run into the same
problem.

Roger Riggins
Network Administrator
Lutheran Services in Iowa
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c: 319.290.5687
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