NTWS Local Admin password change

I am not aware if you can change the Admin PW on all WS's simultanously but you can change the same from an NT Server by opening User Manager For Domains and Selecting the Select Domain option from the User Menu type the NT WS Name (eg \\ntws) this will open up the user manager for that machine then you can change the administrator password without going to the machine but you have to do this for all the workstations.

nothing to do. Nt workstation have its own database. You can obtain all the permisions in the workstation if the group Domain administrator are include in the local group Administrator. Then you can use a Administraor of the domain.

Try this.

The NT resource kit includes many command line utilities. I don't have access to it at this moment, but I'm pretty sure there is command line access to the user manager database. (I know there is in Win2k).

If you can find this utility, you could write a login script that will do this for you.

Sorry this answer isn't much more clear, but I hope it gets you started.

You can use the command:

net user administrator password

Type net user /? for more help. I use this at the end of an unattended build to change the admin password. I think you will need admin rights to the workstation for it to work though.

Use the resource kit utility cusrmgr.exe.

Redirect net view to a file to get a list of your machines, and weed out the DC's, and clean up the listing to only have the actual machine names.

net view > machine.lst

From there, you can use the for command with cusrmgr.exe from the Win2k resource kit to modify the passwords.

You'll have to play with the syntax to get it right.. but this should be close, and should work, even on NT 4.0.

for /f %f in (machine.lst) do cusrmgr -u Administrator -m "%f" -P newpassword

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