Hello,

Sounds like your AD integration has issues.... Check out http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Remote_Authentication for assistance. Note that to fully integrate so passwords work you need to have either winbind or secure ldap working. I know this works with winbind with no issues. However, the standard passwd command is NOT sufficient to change the password on the AD server , so you are really looking at a PAM change to make this work.

This is not really an ESX issue as much as it is a Linux issue as well. A good reference for this is the "Samba-3 By Example" book.

Generally however, if you do not have the proper linux tools installed you should change the pasword using any windows machine or the domain server.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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