WINDOWS NT PASSWORD EXPIRATION

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USERS (WINDOWS XP COMPUTERS) ARE GETTING PASSWORD WILL EXPIRE MESSAGES. WE
CANNOT CHANGE OUR NETWORK PASSWORD OPTIONS FROM OUR PCS, AND DO NOT KNOW HOW
TO CHANGE THEM FROM THE SERVER (WINDOWS NT).
 
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LGOT said:
USERS (WINDOWS XP COMPUTERS) ARE GETTING PASSWORD WILL EXPIRE
MESSAGES. WE CANNOT CHANGE OUR NETWORK PASSWORD OPTIONS FROM OUR
PCS, AND DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THEM FROM THE SERVER (WINDOWS NT).
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Hi - please don't type in all caps. It's hard to read, and is considered
"shouting".

As the other reply suggested, you need to contact whomever manages your
domain/network for help with this. This isn't a WinXP issue....and you
haven't provided enough useful detail for anyone to be able to hazard a
guess. That's why you should talk to your own tech support people.
 
First of all, you want to be sure you know whether it's alocal password
that's expiring, or a server one. It all depends whether the computers are
members of an NT domain, or not.

If it's the network password, then you need to open "User Manager for
Domains" under "Adminstrative Tools" on the NT Start Menu. Changing the
password for a user is fairly self-explanatory.

On the user-manager menu you'll also find the Account Policy settings, where
you can banish the password-expiry for good.

It's a good idea to have a wrong-passowrd lockout set (say after five tries)
so that brute-force attempts to hack the password will fail, but I question
the usefulness of password-exiry unless it's a very short interval (in which
case it's a PITA) - If a hacker has 42 days worth of access I'm sure he will
have got bored by then anyway ;-)
 
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