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by kello

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I've got a netware 4.1 server set up. I also use the clint for win95/98 on a win95 machine. The problem is I forgot the admin password to logon. I only use this for training in the workshop. Is there any way I can override this password or find it out?

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by jimbb

Short answer: no.
Slightly longer answer: do you remember the password you used to install the server? You can try doing a bindery login as SUPERVISOR, and then with a copy of syscon.exe you can try to reset Admin's password.
Slightly tricky answer: try one of the utilities on this link:

http://www.netwarefiles.com/passmgmt.htm

There may be one that is useful to you.

Good luck.

Jim

by computerquest

As stated earlier there is no direct way to find out what your password was, but if you were smart at setup, you would have created your login and made yourself eaqual to admin. If your rights are eaqual to admin you can go into details and reset the admin password.

by oz_media

Sorry to contradict but it is a TERRIBLE idea to create yourself as 'equal to admin'. If you had LOST the admin object (yes it happened to me)you would not be able to login at all because your access rights could not be authenticated via the Admin object. It is however a good idea to grant yourself rights individually to be equal to admin.
I made this MASSIVE mistake and couldn't log in. Tech Repub has published several articles on the dangers of granting 'equal to' rights, sorry I don't have the numbers but I'm sure you could search for them.
Again, sorry to contradict, I'm no CNE and definately don't know everything about Netware, but this lesson is one I learned well.
:-)

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