2K Server locking 98 users out

From: Dave (dauern@cox.net)
Date: 05/08/02 

Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 10:56:41 -0700 (US Mountain Standard Time)
From: Dave <"dauern@cox.net"@cox.net>
To: focus-ms@securityfocus.com

Hello all,

First of all, let me say that this/these list(s) are an incredible tool,
both for beginner admins and security freaks (and much more). OK, enough
mush. :)

I am domain admin on a 2K server serving about 60 users. Occasionally a
user's account will be locked, for absolutely no apparent reason that I
can tell. It's happened to my account quite a few times, in fact (not my
admin account). This seems to happen only to 98 machines... every
instance I can recall was on a 98 machine. While I can't speak for anyone
else's problems necessarily, the only odd thing I noticed about about the
instances where my account was locked is that my computer was usually idle
for an hour or more (long lunches). Does anyone have any recommendations
to perhaps point me in the right direction in resolving this? Thanks for
your help.

Dave

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