On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 06:15:41AM -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 00:25 -0800, Jack Bates wrote: > > From Linux I can use "smbpasswd -r 192.168.1.123 -U jack" to change the > > password I use to map network drives. How can I do the same from Windows > > I configured a Samba share that several folks connect to from their > > personal (Windows) laptops. They want to be able to change the passwords > > they use to connect to this share > > Assuming: since you say "personal laptops" that these machines are *not* > members of a domain and thus are participating in a workgroup [however > adhoc that workgroup may be] > > I'm not aware of any way to change an account/share password from a > Windows client when operating in workgroup mode; this is regardless of > if the server is Samba or Windows.
Ctrl-Alt-Del, "Change Password", and as username type in SERVERNAME\user. That always worked for me, even in Win7. But YMMV. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kont...@sernet.de -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba