Re: Win2K - Account Lockout Policy

From: Matt (mhall@advantagepersonnel.com.au)
Date: 11/28/02 

From: "Matt" <mhall@advantagepersonnel.com.au>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 14:43:45 +1100

A W2K client should be able to view the local security policy. The effective
settings for the policy should come down from the domain controller. Try
matching the local settings with the effective domain settings (you will
have to have admin rights)

"Kerry Hoskin" <kjho@pml.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:e$N7IqrfCHA.2700@tkmsftngp09...
> what client PC's are your running?? I have seen this kind of problem with
> win9.x clients when running the AD client software on the PC's
>
> Kerry
>
> "Subhodini Fernandes" <subhfern@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:49c0d836.0210280850.6247fea9@posting.google.com...
> > I have a large Win2K domain and users are complaining about that fact
> > that the account get locked out after 1 incorrect attempt, even though
> > the policy is set for 3 incorrect attempts.
> > From a Windows 2000 client is it possible to get the account
> > lockout policy for my user account ? I need to find out the max number
> > of incorrect logins before which my account gets locked out.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Subhodini.
>
>

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