Mac/Active Directory password issue

I have an AD domain with both PCs and Mac OSX clients. I'm testing the more
stringent password requirements that are default in Win2003 Server, but my
Mac clients get a "your password is too darned long" warning if they go
beyond eight characters. Since the recommended/default is ten characters,
this does present a problem :-)

Anyway, I changed the minimum number of password characters to eight and now
my Macs can change their passwords. But the problem is that they must have
EXACTLY eight characters now. I don't really think it's a good idea to
lower the minimum to, say, six, to allow the Macs some variation.

Does anybody here have any experience with this
situation?

Many thanks,
Mark

In article ,
"Mark" <mark.DeleteThis@ihatespam.com> wrote:

 > I have an AD domain with both PCs and Mac OSX clients. I'm testing the more
 > stringent password requirements that are default in Win2003 Server, but my
 > Mac clients get a "your password is too darned long" warning if they go
 > beyond eight characters. Since the recommended/default is ten characters,
 > this does present a problem :-)
 >
 > Anyway, I changed the minimum number of password characters to eight and now
 > my Macs can change their passwords. But the problem is that they must have
 > EXACTLY eight characters now. I don't really think it's a good idea to
 > lower the minimum to, say, six, to allow the Macs some variation.
 >
 > Does anybody here have any experience with this
 > situation?

Hi Mark!

Install the Microsoft UAM from their website
<http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=window
s2000sfm>. This will allow for passwords up to 64 characters, I believe,
on Windows 2000 and newer systems and up to 15 characters for NT 4.0
systems.

Hope this helps! bill
--
William M. Smith
(Microsoft Interop MVP)