This is the mail archive of the
cygwin@cygwin.com
mailing list for the Cygwin project.
Re: mkpasswd (Win2K) cannot find the domain controller
- From: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
- To: "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw at agere dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 11:33:14 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- Subject: Re: mkpasswd (Win2K) cannot find the domain controller
- References: <GBEGLOMMCLDACBPKDIHFGECPCIAA.gsw@agere.com>
- Reply-to: Michael A Chase <mchase at ix dot netcom dot com>
On Wed, 8 May 2002 13:55:45 -0400 "Gerald S. Williams" <gsw@agere.com> wrote:
> Jason Tishler wrote:
> > $ mkpasswd -d -u user domain
> > What happens if you try the above command with user and domain replaced
> > as appropriate?
>
> From BASH ($USERNAME and $USERDOMAIN are correct):
> $ mkpasswd -d -u $USERNAME $USERDOMAIN
> mkpasswd: [2453] Could not find domain controller for this domain.
>
> From CMD:
> C:\cygwin>bin\mkpasswd -d -u %USERNAME% %USERDOMAIN%
> mkpasswd: [2453] Could not find domain controller for this domain.
Can you tell us what the exact values of $USERNAME and $USERDOMAIN are? If
they contain spaces or some other odd characters, they may need to be quoted.
--
Mac :})
** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. **
Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day.
Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age.
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/