RE: Users unable to change password

Very weird. I applied SP1 to each of the DCs and the problem disappeared.
Couldn't find anything in the service pack release notes about this problem,
so I've still no idea what happened.
Still, all's well that ends well.

"John Strachan" wrote:

> Hi Paul,
> As I said in the original post, the password policy is set in the default
> domain group policy.
> Since this appears to be a user-related issue, not a workstation-related one
> (the same user cannot change password, regardless of which workstation they
> are on), I will use adsiedit to look for any permissions differences on user
> objects.
> I looked at this and thought it would be a 1/2 hour job! Oh well.
> John
>
> "Paul Williams [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Where are you setting these options? You can only configure domain password
> > policies at the domain level. That is, the GPO must be linked to the
> > domainDNS container.
> >
> > --
> > Paul Williams
> > Microsoft MVP - Windows Server - Directory Services
> > http://www.msresource.net | http://forums.msresource.net
> >
> >
.

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