Re: Account Lockout

From: Vincent Brown (vincent.brown_at_equityone.com)
Date: 06/09/03 

Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:31:02 -0700

This issue sort of has a twist to it. The account lockout
seems to occur while the user is still logged in. As long
as they don't deliberately log out or the PC doesn't
timeout and lock itself, the user is OK.

Any ideas?

>-----Original Message-----
>On 6/6/03 10:36 PM, in article 064601c32c9d$aba327f0
$a301280a@phx.gbl,
>"Craig" <cmanske@houston.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> Vincent,
>>
>> If these are XP clients there is a new feature in XP
that
>> will cache passwords for network resources on the local
>> desktop. When the users logs in...it tries to use those
>> credentials several times before the user ever gets to
>> see the desktop come up. My guess would be that all of
>> the users that are having this problem have recently
>> changed their passwords and the cached password is
>> locking them out.
>>
>> Go to control panel \ Users \ Advanced I believe....
>>
>> If thats not it look for any drives that are mapped
using
>> old credentials....or Terminal Server connections that
>> may be have an idle session using the old password.
>>
>> The event logs on your PDC should give you a clue as to
>> where the lockouts are coming from.
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Craig
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> I have a handful of users that experience account
>> lockouts
>>> every time they try to log in. Even though our default
>>> domain policy says they have 5 retries before account
>>> lockout, the account locks. Also notice that everytime
>>> they log in, the account always says that it has
expired
>>> even though it is set to never expire.
>>>
>>> Anyone have any clue about what this is and more
>>> importantly, how to fix it?
>>>
>>> Please advise ASAP.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Vincent.
>>> .
>>>
>This is not a new feature in Windows XP, but has been
part of the Windows NT
>technology group since 3.5, its called Cached Account
Credentials, and will
>only be checked if there is no DC to verify
Username/Password.
>
>.
>