Changing Local Admin PW not running on w2k pro

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From: Hadi (HSukirman_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:06:07 -0800

This might be a very stupid question but I don't know how to solve this problem.

I would like to change the local Administrator password for all our clients from a log-in script. Our domain is w2k based and has a working AD.

In the script center I found the following script which I used as a basis:

     strComputer = "MyComputer"
     Set objUser = GetObject("WinNT://" & strComputer & "/Administrator, user")
     objUser.SetPassword "testpassword"
     objUser.SetInfo

I changed the strComputer to "." and it didn't work, then I tried the local computer name of the workstation I am using - which didn't work. I tried the full DNS name of it and it also didn't work.

My workstation is w2k SP4 and I always get an error message like:
SetPW.vbs(2, 1) (null): 0x80005000

I am running the script as a domain user who has full admin rights on that workstation.

What did I miss? Thanks is advance for the answers!

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