Good morning! I have in my net over 500 PC.
Currently (windows ME/98) I clone whole disks between workstations with partimage (I setup special software which changes "computer name" automatically based on revDNS name of computer - so clone process is whole automatic). Now I want to change client OS to XP. Now I have questions. When I made software on PC e.g. mother01 (with joining domain) and clone it to dauther01 + change "computer Name" with regedit from mother01 to dauther01 i can not log in because domain password for dauther01 is not set. So I copy domain password from mother01 to dauther01 and I can log in. But I do not know if those password changes in time. e.g. at 13.8 it is AAAAAAAA but after e.g. 2 weeks it was changed (I read that machines passwords are automatically changing in time without rejoining domain - it is true?) - if somebody know when machines passwords are changing (if only on joining domain - it is no problem (I can copy password from mother01 to whole bunch of dauthers), but if it changes automatically I am in tuple)? Please enlight me about machine passwords and its behaviour... Best Regards -- Bartlomiej Solarz-Niesluchowski, Administrator WSISiZ e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]