User Account Lockout

[Leighton Evans]

Hi all,
I need some advice for a problem i have. When a user changes
his/her password, they will get account lockout problems frequently even
while they are logged on. It was even happening to me. I would return to
work on a morning to find my account was locked out even though i had only
logged in once the previous day. we do use the Citrix client on all our
p.c's which are set to single sign-on, perhaps they are causing issues after
password changes? But why 7 days later still?. we have over 30 D.C's and i
was wondering wether this was a replication issue. I've checked the logs of
the DC's and only really see w32time service problems .
Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

 

[Tim Hines, MCSA, MCSE]

When account lockouts occur it is usually a result of an app sending a bad
password when attempting to authenticate the user. There are several ways
to go about troubleshooting this. Take a look at the following resources
for more information.

Account Policy whitepaper

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...ndowsserver2003/maintain/operate/BPACTLCK.asp

Account lockout management tools

http://microsoft.com/downloads/deta...9C-91F3-4E63-8629-B999ADDE0B9E&displaylang=en

Account Best Practices

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...oddocs/entserver/windows_password_protect.asp

Account Lockout Webcast

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/servicedesks/webcasts/wc022703/wcblurb022703.asp


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Windows 2000 Directory Services

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[Leighton]

Thanks for the advice. The Account Lockout Tools are very useful. I'll let
you know.

Leighton Evans CCNA,MCP