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Enforcing Regular Password Changes

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by elrodt

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I control a BDC but have full DomainAdmin rights. When clients running win 95/98 go to login and enter their new password, the following appears.
"Unable to change password for microsoft networking because of the following error:
The domain controller for the domain can not be found."

Why can't the clients communicate to the PDC? What can I do to correct this?

Thanks

Terry

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by nettek

I am assuming your PDC is on another subnet. If you cannot ping the PDC by IP address from the 9x clients, you have a routing problem. If you can ping by IP address, but not name, you have a name resolution problem.

If you are using DHCP, make sure DHCP is set up to supply your clients with the default gateway. Else, manually input the gateway into the 9x PCs.

Are you running WINS, make sure DHCP is set up to supply your clients with your WINS server(s) addresses. There is also a setting under your 9x clients network properties to use DHCP for WINS resolution. Else, you need to manually input the WINS server addresses on the 9x clients. If you are not running WINS, you will need to add LMHOSTS files to all your clients so that they can find the PDC.

by missharding

Have you added there machine/user name to the domain? This should correct your problem...It sounds as if they are not apart of the Domain....Try it out..

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