User Accounts Keep Locking Out

From: John (john@mousehut.com)
Date: 01/23/03 

From: john@mousehut.com (John)
Date: 23 Jan 2003 14:33:32 -0800

Hey All:

Running a Win2k Web Server and am having a problem with all user
accounts being locked out every few weeks or so except the original
admin account (which was renamed).

I am guessing there is some tool out there that can read the user
accounts on a machine and then is automatically trying to crack the
passwords. Of course, the machine is set to lock people out after 3
bad attempts so that's not getting to far and we enforce tough
passwords.

So, my question is, is there any way to stop this? Can anything be
done or do I have to live with unlocking everyones account every few
weeks (hope not).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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