Win 2000 pro permissions

[Guest]

I am need of help with a problem with Window 2000 pro access. The rest of my
network is an amalagamation of win 9x and NT4.0. Passwords are simple and
short. We installed a new win 2000 pro machine with a new Dell laser printer
that requires 8 charcters for the password. Needless to say I cannot use the
old passwords to access the new machine. We do not want to change the
current passwords on the old machines if we don't have to since everyone one
knows them. This is in a closed enviornment with not access to the internet.
At this time I can get temporary access to the Win 2000 pro machine and I
can print to it by adding 3 characters to the end and load them into the win
2000 machine as users. However if I let the system set for a couple of
hours, I am locked out of the win 2000 pro computer and I have to go back in
and unlock the accounts.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Try:

1. Log onto the Win2k Pro machine with an administrator account.

2. Go to Administrative Tools/Local Security Policy.

3. Expand Account Policies - click on Password Policy. You can change the
minimum length requirements.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

 

[Guest]

Thanks,

But one of my problems is that we a government subcontractor and are
required by the government to maintain the eight character password
requirement at this time. I don't know why, it is the government. Is it
necessary that both the Win 2000 Pro machine and the other computers maintain
the same passwords for each user installed on the win 2000 pro machine?

 

[Doug Sherman [MVP]]

Well, if this is a workgroup, as distinguished from a domain, then the
conventional way to allow remote users to access shares and printers is to
create a matching user account and password on the Win2k machine for each
remote user who needs to access resources on the machine. These local
accounts would be subject to the password policy in effect on the Win2k Pro
machine. However, you might be able to do this instead:

Log onto an NT machine with a 3 character password; then map a drive,
connect to a share, or connect to a shared printer using:

\\Win2kcomputername\sharename /user:Win2kcomputername\username

Where username is an account on the Win2k machine with an 8 character
password.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP