AD Password Change Error

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Fred Yarbrough

We are currently running a Windows 2003 AD domain which has a trust to our
NT 4.0 domain. We have started migrating users (~100 thus far) over to our
new AD domain using the ADMT 2.0 tool. We have run into several accounts
that appear to migrate over successfully but when you go to change the
password the following error results:

Windows cannot complete the password change for <username> because: The
system cannot find the file specified.

No error is generated in the event logs and this only happens on ~ 1 out of
20 accounts. Re-migrating the account does not resolve the issue.

I have searched everywhere and have not seen another report of this problem.
Has anyone else seen this problem?


Thanks,
Fred Yarbrough
 
Oddly enough the password will be changed for the AD account but we get this
error message.

Windows cannot complete the password change for <username> because: The
system cannot find the file specified.


Any Ideas?


Thanks,
Fred
 
This message can be seen when your NT 4.0 domain had Netware hooks in it at
some point. When the NT account is migrated to the AD domain there is a
problem with the NetWare conversion. You can use the AD ADSI Edit and go to
the user account. A normal user account will have a value of 512 for the
userAccountControl property. If the account is disabled the value will be
512 + 2 for disabled =514. I also cleared out the userParameters which had
Netware entries also. After the change is made, synchronize the DC's and
you can change the password without getting this error.

The userAccountControl properties can be seen at
http://www.jsiinc.com/SUBL/tip5500/rh5504.htm.

Thanks,
Fred
 
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