You ought to check another thing...
Do they have manually mapped network drives? (that will use whatever password was
originally used to setup the mapping).
The drive mapping will continue to present the old password until the account
is disabled, unless the mapping is recreated with their new password.
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2002 3:38 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NT4 Account keeps getting locked out!
I past experience i have had the same problem.
Solution:
CAPS LOCK
>
> Network info:
>
> NT 4 server network with W2KPro clients.
>
>
> Situation:
>
> We have a user that keeps getting their NT account
> locked out for reasons that we are not yet aware.
> Unable to get much info from Event Viewer on NT4
> servers or W2KPro client. Don't know if this is
> being done by someone intentionally (somewhere on
> the network or from the client's computer) just to
> give us a hard time, or a rouge program somewhere on
> the network or client's computer trying to logon as
> that
> user. At this time, we are not ruling anyone out,
> everyone is suspect. We have replaced the client's
> computer (not totally, user copied shortcuts and
> some files back to the new desktop...I know, if it
> was up to me they would not have been allowed to do
> this, but it's not up to me) and the account is
> still getting locked out. We are in the process of
> creating a new NT account for this user and see if
> it still occurs.
>
>
> Bottom Line:
>
> We need to find out what is causing this account to
> get locked out and prevent it from happening again.
>
>
> Some thoughts:
>
> Is there third party software that will be able to
> determine what is causing this account to get locked
> out? Some sort of sniffing program on the server or
> the client to find out what program is trying to
> logon with this account and from where?
>
> If this is a user doing this intentionally, what are
> they doing and from where? Are they trying to
> connect remotely to the client?s registry, or to a
> share on the
> client computer?
>
> Is there third party software that can help?
>
> Any suggestions/recommendations welcome.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jack
>
>
>
