Re: problems with a domain admin account
From: Sandra L Miller (slm@cs.arizona.edu)
Date: 06/07/02
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Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 09:59:24 -0700 From: Sandra L Miller <slm@cs.arizona.edu>
I think that this was the cause of the problem. My boss was logged
in as AD2 on his workstation (as he always is, much to my dismay).
When I finally convinced him to log off, the problem went away.
Don't know if he was more glad that the problem was solved, or
mad that I pointed out that he was the cause.
Thanks for everybody's help.
Greg Brown wrote:
>
> Most likely you are logged in as ad2 on a workstation or server(possibly a
> terminal services session) from before the password change and this machine
> keeps locking you out.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
> "Sandra L Miller" <slm@cs.arizona.edu> wrote in message
> news:3CF6A828.36EECDB0@cs.arizona.edu...
> > Help please.
> >
> > We have a Windows domain, with 2 domain controllers running Windows
> > 2000, and 200+ workstations running mostly Windows 2000 (one NT and
> > some XPs). As per Microsoft's recommendation, we changed the name
> > of the original Administrator account to something else (call it ad1)
> > and rarely use the account. We created a second administrator account
> > (call it ad2) which we use daily for administration. We have always
> > changed the password for ad2 monthly.
> >
> > The problem...
> > Recently, we have been having problems when we change the password
> > for ad2. The account becomes locked out, over and over. I keep
> > unlocking it, using the ad1 account, but after 15-20 minutes, it is
> > locked out again. We don't have a policy in place to lock out accounts
> > after x number of failed login attempts, so I don't THINK that's the
> > problem. Does anybody have any ideas? My boss is getting annoyed at
> > me :-( (he can't ever remember the password for ad1).
> >
> > Thanks for any help.
-- Sandra L Miller Department of Computer Science University of Arizona
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