Johnny, I had this problem a few weeks ago. I didn't find out who or what was locking out the account, however as soon as I made the user change his password to a complex password it seemed like the problem went away. It was kind of strange because around the same time that the user account was getting locked out we found out that our email server got hacked into, causing me to have to reinstall w2k and e2k. (sorry didn't want to break that bad news). Hopefully nothing too serious has happened on your end. There's a site that Roger recommended me to, it's www.sysinternals.com. There is a util called pstools.exe. With this tool, you can do many things, one of them being that you can find out if the user is logged on multiple times onto the network and where she is logged on. Hope this helps.
John -----Original Message----- From: Kim Schotanus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:40 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Account lock outs How can you check that Malcolm? -----Original Message----- From: Malcolm Reitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 15:38 To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: RE: Account lock outs Have you confirmed that the user is not logged on to another computer besides the one at her desk? Malcolm -----Original Message----- From: Johnny [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:34 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Account lock outs Hi, I have an account in a domain that keeps getting locked out every couple of hours. The group policy for the domain says lock out the account after 5 failed logon attempts. Of course this person is just sitting at her desk. In her event logs I noticed that routinely she gets the message security settings in the group policy object applied successfully (paraphrasing there). I'm not sure if it is after the application of this policy that she gets locked out. For testing, I bumped up the failed login attempts to 20 and she wasn't locked out this morning. Is there anythingelse aside from failed login attempts that can lock out and account? Is this a strong indicator that someone might be trying to figure out her password or is that just paranoia talking? It only started happening this past week. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, John ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
