Is it possible to remotely set the password in Vista?

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Frank Rizzo

Hello, I am overseas for a while. So to be able to access my Vista
computer at home, I installed Log Me In program, which works great for
me in other environments.

However, I've found out that I can't access my PC because the account on
my Vista box does not have a password set (e.g. it's blank). Log Me In,
it turns out, requires a password.

However, I am able to get to other computers (all running Windows XP) on
my home network (i have 4 PCs in the house doing various things) via
Remote Desktop and VNC.

My question is whether it is possible to remotely (via Windows XP
computers that are on my network) change the password for the account on
my Vista computer?

Regards
 
Nope. Vista will not allow any remote login to an unpassworded account,
regardless of whether it's a local lan or the internet, and a password can
only be set while logged in locally. Someone will have to go to the machine
and create one.

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Frank said:
Hello, I am overseas for a while. So to be able to access my Vista
computer at home, I installed Log Me In program, which works great for
me in other environments.

However, I've found out that I can't access my PC because the account on
my Vista box does not have a password set (e.g. it's blank). Log Me In,
it turns out, requires a password.

However, I am able to get to other computers (all running Windows XP) on
my home network (i have 4 PCs in the house doing various things) via
Remote Desktop and VNC.

My question is whether it is possible to remotely (via Windows XP
computers that are on my network) change the password for the account on
my Vista computer?
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You know I did that once on my network. I used Netmetting to RDS connect
to a machine on my network over the Internet. I then use TightVNC from
the Netmeeting RDS machine to connect to any machine on my LAN that was
running TightVNC.

The reason I could do it was that the two RDS applications were using
different ports.
 
Rick Rogers said:
Nope. Vista will not allow any remote login to an unpassworded account,
regardless of whether it's a local lan or the internet, and a password
can only be set while logged in locally. Someone will have to go to the
machine and create one.
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Nope. I saw your post, and it took me about 30 seconds to change my
server's admin password remotely through the command line:

psexec \\polaris net user administrator mynewpassword

It worked.

ss.
 
Rick Rogers said:
Nope. Vista will not allow any remote login to an unpassworded account,
regardless of whether it's a local lan or the internet, and a password
can only be set while logged in locally. Someone will have to go to the
machine and create one.
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Changing it back to the old password was a little more involved, as I could
not connect from the client, as it had a different admin password:

psexec \\hubble -u administrator -p mynewpassword net user administrator
myoldpassword

ss.
 
Synapse Syndrome said:
Changing it back to the old password was a little more involved, as I
could not connect from the client, as it had a different admin password:

psexec \\hubble -u administrator -p mynewpassword net user administrator
myoldpassword
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Oops. Forgot to edit that to conceal the name of my gateway server there.
I'll have to change it now!

ss.
 
Oops. Forgot to edit that to conceal the name of my gateway server there.
I'll have to change it now!

ss.
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Too late. I already connected to your server, formatted the drive, and
installed Linux. You'll be more careful next time.
 
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