Well at least when you find out who changed the password then you can arrest them, lock them up and swallow the key - most of us ordinary IT admins would like to be able to do that with certain users :-)
Simon Oh and Happy New Year to youse all. > -----Original Message----- > From: Bob Couchman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 3 January 2002 7:54 a.m. > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Re: Help! Locked out! > > > A bow to the exchange gods here is due. A change in the > password on all of the exchange services got me back into > exchange. Still some troubles. I'll bless you with those > Friday. (My next scheduled computer network day). I'm a > police officer full time and a network admin once in a > while. Interesting combination. Oh, and I'm still supposed > to be able to keep everything running tip top! LOL > > Thanks again, > Bob > > > > On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 09:42:31 -0800 > "Lefkovics, William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <Not looking at David> > > > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q274814 > > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q157780 > > > > William > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: David N. Precht [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:42 AM > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > Subject: Re: Help! Locked out! > > > > > > Don't look at me ;) > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Lefkovics, William" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "MS-Exchange Admin Issues" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 12:32 > > Subject: RE: Help! Locked out! > > > > > > > Who changed the Exchange Service account password? Or > > who changed what > > > account the exchange services use? > > > > > > William Lefkovics, MCSE-NT4, MCSE-W2K, A+, ExchangeMVP > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > Why just ride, when you can fly? > > > http://www.airborne.net > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > Rent this space: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Bob Couchman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 9:29 AM > > > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > > > Subject: Help! Locked out! > > > > > > > > > For some unknown reason.. (I can hear the sighs now) > > > Exchange has just crapped out on me. I'll copy the > > Event Log > > > for your review: > > > > > > Message #1 > > > Logon attempt with current password failed with the > > > following error: > > > Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password. > > > > > > Message #2 > > > The Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service failed > > to > > > start due to the following error: > > > The service did not start due to a logon failure. > > > > > > Message #3 > > > The Microsoft Exchange Directory service depends on the > > > Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service which > > failed to > > > start because of the following error: > > > The service did not start due to a logon failure. > > > > > > And so on and so on.... > > > > > > I have not changed the password to the exchange > > > administrator account. I can't get exchange started to > > check > > > the password or change it. I have looking the domain > > user > > > list and indeed the account was locked as it is > > supposed to > > > be after three bad password attempts. I've unlocked the > > > account and restarted the machine. Still no luck. It > > appears > > > to me that somehow, the account that Exchange used to > > log > > > into the network with has been either altered or > > corrupted > > > somehow. > > > > > > How do I fix this problem? 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