Samba password update do not works when security=ADS... It's a known bug: http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2005-April/040396.html It's always true with Samba 3.6: void attempt_machine_password_change(void) { unsigned char trust_passwd_hash[16]; time_t lct; void *lock; if (!global_machine_password_needs_changing) { return; } if (lp_security() != SEC_DOMAIN) { return; } ...... ...... }
this isn't a problem in any recent samba version.