user password on smb scanning keeps changing

[Voltage]

Hi guys

What will be the best way to setup smb scanning on a pc that user password have to be changed every month?

Create a local user?

Not to clued up on user accounts on pcs.

Thanks

[zed255]

I usually set up a local user account with a password that never expires and that the user cannot change. Then I use those credentials to do SMB scanning. Ensure 'Everyone' has full access to the folder share in question and I doesn't hurt to explicitly add the new user to the share and security permissions with full control also (I've had a few cases where the 'Everyone' didn't work and I had to add the new user to the list).

[Jomama46]

I'm with Zed. I create a new User- Ricoh and pw- scanner and set it so the password never expires. and BTW if "everyone" doesn't work, "Authenticated User" is more secure anyway.

[Vulkor]

Long as Customer and IT guy doesn't know you made an account that doesn't change password.

[zed255]

If you can make the account then the IT department isn't doing a good job. I generally explain why we need it and get what I want, otherwise I train the client how to update the password in the address book and leave it at that. In a small office you can generally just go for it and all is good, though if they use the 'Welcome Screen' in XP you might want to edit the registry to hide the new user, as below:

How can I hide a user from the Welcome Screen in Windows XP?
To hide a user's account from the welcome screen in Windows XP:
1. Open Registry Editor.
2. In Registry Editor, navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserLis t
1. Create the following entry:
Username: REG_DWORD
(Where Username is the username of the user you want to hide from the Welcome Screen).
1. Assign a value of 0.
2. Close Registry Editor.
3. Reboot.
This will prevent the user from showing up on the welcome screen. You will need to press CTRL-ALT-DEL twice at the logon screen to get the old W2K logon style box to be able to logon to the account you've hidden. Adding a username and setting the value to 1 will cause that user, such as Administrator, to show up on the Welcome screen as well.

[Vulkor]

In a Domain Environment the Above Steps are Not Necessary as it has the Boxes with Last username and person has to enter Password. That is VERY COOL ZED. Now do you know how to do that in Vista or 7?!?! That is what I need badly

[Vulkor]

If you can make the account then the IT department isn't doing a good job. I generally explain why we need it and get what I want, otherwise I train the client how to update the password in the address book and leave it at that.

Unfortunately most IT are poor at it. I often get in on the Backdoor of XP machines. Most IT won't lockdown the Vista/7 due to lack of knowledge or Admin access issues and they are lazy. But customer hates it when they now have to type a password instead of it auto logging in because it only had one account beforehand.

Training the client with the address book has worked well for some of my customers. Especially the Nursing homes and Home Health, but many others just scan to someone else until too many Scan destinations don't work, then we charge them to come out and fix them all.

[nmfaxman]

Have the administrator use the "administrator" username and password for authentication to each workstation.
They change theirs when they feel like it.
I charge when they call me that no workstations can scan to SMB.