Re: User Locked Out

From: Nepatsfan (nepatsfan_at_SBXXXIX.com)
Date: 10/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:34:43 -0500

Correction to my earlier response:

Have you checked the Properties of the user account?
Go to Start -> Run and enter lusrmgr.msc in the Open box.
Click OK.
Open the Users folder.
See if the account in question has been disabled.

Sorry for the confusion. Also, you might want to take a look in
Local Security Policy for a setting within the Local
Settings/Password Policies that may be casusing this behavior.

Nepatsfan

fockmsn wrote:
> None of the links you provided help me in any way. I have
> SP2 and all the updates.
> The locked out account does not appear in the control panel
> or the logon screen.
>
> Format it is then. It will take me a month to reinstall all
> programs and plugins.
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
>
> "Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Your User Account May Be Prematurely Locked Out
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;818078
>>
>> You Are Locked Out of Your Account When You Try to Change
>> Your Expired Password
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;828790
>>
>> --
>> Carey Frisch
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows - Shell/User
>> Microsoft Community Newsgroups
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com/
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> "fockmsn" wrote:
>>
>>> Windows XP Pro
>>>
>>> Name1 has admin privileges.
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> - Event Properties:
>>>
>>> Logon Failure:
>>> Reason: Account locked out
>>> User Name: Name1
>>> Domain: Name2
>>> Logon Type: 2
>>>
>>> Logon Process: User32
>>> Authentication Package: Negotiate
>>> Workstation Name: Name2
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> -Name1 Properties:
>>>
>>> Name1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Full name:
>>>
>>>
>>> Description:
>>>
>>>
>>> User must change password at next logon [GHOSTED]
>>>
>>> User cannot change password
>>>
>>> X Password never expires
>>>
>>> Account is disabled
>>> Account is locked out [GHOSTED]
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -NET USER NAME1 (command):
>>>
>>> User name Name1
>>> Full Name
>>> Comment
>>> User's comment
>>> Country code 000 (System Default)
>>> Account active Yes
>>> Account expires Never
>>>
>>> Password last set 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
>>> Password expires Never
>>> Password changeable 10/26/2005 6:57 PM
>>> Password required Yes
>>> User may change password Yes
>>>
>>> Workstations allowed All
>>> Logon script
>>> User profile
>>> Home directory
>>> Last logon 10/21/2005 5:47 PM
>>>
>>> Logon hours allowed All
>>>
>>> Local Group Memberships *Administrators
>>> *Debugger Users
>>> Global Group memberships *None
>>> The command completed successfully.
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> This is the info! The account's password was not set to
>>> expire, and everything looks right, except that it does
>>> not appear in Control Panel/User Accounts or the Welcome
>>> Screen, and the "Classic Logon" doesn't work.
>>>
>>> What's the problem? What caused this? And most
>>> importantly HOW DO I FIX IT?
>>>
>>> Now, do I have to reformat and reinstall windows almost
>>> every month? This is so focking retarded!
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> I don't expect compensation or attribution, but here are
>>> some features I expect be included in the upcoming Windows
>>> Vista:
>>>
>>> 1. Incorporate the file system into the registry.
>>> 2. Include a fart sensor (to be incorporated in the seat
>>> by the user) with the next Windows release, and have the
>>> output logged into the registry.
>>> 3. Make ALL files excutable.
>>> 4. Execute ALL files with rundll32.exe
>>> 5. Hide file extensions from the user. Wait, this is done
>>> already!
>>> 6. Rename all files as soon as they are installed to very
>>> long hex strings, so as to hide from the user, among
>>> others, the biometric fart logs.

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