Account locking out

Idris · External Since: May 23, 2007 Posts: 8

A user has an account that locks out every time he tries and does anything.
He has no mapped drives.

I'm at a loss. PSLOGGED on comes up with nothing.

(This is an NT account).

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Paul Bergson [MVP-DS] · External Since: Oct 09, 2006 Posts: 187

Is the account logged into more than one machine or is it running a service
on the same machine? A user could have mapped drives to a resource from one
machine, on a different machine he changes his password and then the first
machine attempts to stay mapped to a drive and the password is no longer
correct and eventually locks the user out. Or after a password is changed a
service is running that attempts to authenticate with an old password.

To help try and track down where the account is getting locked out use
eventcomboMT.exe from the Account Lockout tools found out Microsoft's
website. Use the built in search AccountLockouts and search in the created
text files for the user in question.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyi...af2e69c

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"Idris" <idris.TakeThisOut@iddiinisde.com> wrote in message
news:edgjs$tyHHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>A user has an account that locks out every time he tries and does anything.
> He has no mapped drives.
>
> I'm at a loss. PSLOGGED on comes up with nothing.
>
> (This is an NT account).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>

Idris · External Since: May 23, 2007 Posts: 8

Thanks.
The user has no services running under his name.
No mapped drives on his pc (or any other PC)
The tools don't work for NT?
I can't see any event id errors on his PC or PDC/BDC that suggest anything
at all.

Completely lost.
Sad

"Paul Bergson [MVP-DS]" <pbergson RemoveThis @allete_nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Is the account logged into more than one machine or is it running a
> service on the same machine? A user could have mapped drives to a
> resource from one machine, on a different machine he changes his password
> and then the first machine attempts to stay mapped to a drive and the
> password is no longer correct and eventually locks the user out. Or after
> a password is changed a service is running that attempts to authenticate
> with an old password.
>
> To help try and track down where the account is getting locked out use
> eventcomboMT.exe from the Account Lockout tools found out Microsoft's
> website. Use the built in search AccountLockouts and search in the
> created text files for the user in question.
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&familyi...af2e69c
>
> --
> Paul Bergson
> MVP - Directory Services
> MCT, MCSE, MCSA, Security+, BS CSci
> 2003, 2000 (Early Achiever), NT
>
> http://www.pbbergs.com
>
> Please no e-mails, any questions should be posted in the NewsGroup
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> rights.
>
> "Idris" <idris RemoveThis @iddiinisde.com> wrote in message
> news:edgjs$tyHHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>A user has an account that locks out every time he tries and does
>>anything.
>> He has no mapped drives.
>>
>> I'm at a loss. PSLOGGED on comes up with nothing.
>>
>> (This is an NT account).
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
>

Jorge de Almeida Pinto [M · External Since: Aug 22, 2006 Posts: 231

to troubleshoot account lockouts, see:

http://blogs.technet.com/guarddog/archive/2006/06/05/432761.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2005/12/23/507103.aspx
http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Implementing-Troubleshooting-Ac...nt-Lock

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"Idris" <idris.RemoveThis@iddiinisde.com> wrote in message
news:edgjs$tyHHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>A user has an account that locks out every time he tries and does anything.
> He has no mapped drives.
>
> I'm at a loss. PSLOGGED on comes up with nothing.
>
> (This is an NT account).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks.
>