Re: problems with a domain admin account
From: Ron Stewart (rons@trios.com.no.spam)
Date: 05/31/02
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From: "Ron Stewart" <rons@trios.com.no.spam> Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 20:13:06 -0400
Another possibility: do you by any chance have an application (for example,
Exchange 5.x) using that ad2 account as its service account? Unlikely, as
you don't mention any application errors, but I wanted to cover that
possibility.
-- Ron Stewart B.Ed., MCSE+I, MCT Senior Instructor/Consultant triOS Training Centres Mississauga, Ontario, Canada (905) 542-7678 -- "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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