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Getting account lockout while logged on

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by flashtube105

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Each night at about 8:00 PM my manager is getting locked out of her account while she is logged on. She logs off and logs back on and she gets a message that her account is locked out. What could be causing this, short of using the LockoutStatus.exe tool to find out?
We have a win2000, HP/Compaq shop.

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by Former member

Where it seems to occur at the same time every night, my first thought would be to check for a scheduled task set to run with her credentials.

by sreya_sabrina

y dont u go ahead and make a new account for all the ppl and then check wat happens..if this continues then there can be a virus issue..

by notsochiguy

I'd check her account, and ensure that she is authorized to be logged onto the network past 8PM.

by flashtube105

Thank you for your input. She has no restrictions on login time and it is also happening to two other users. Any other thoughts would be greatly appriciated.

by desshiels

Your users may have stored passwords into applications a while back and since changed their passwords. You'd need to identify every app that was running at the time and go through them with a toothcomb. Or.. they may have changed their passwords while online and their machines may still be using cached logon events. That way what the PDC account password may be different from the password they're using to log onto. In that case it'd cause a breakdown of the trust relationship. Try setting a policy for zero cached logons and get them to logon again and see... if they connect then get them to change their passwords while connected. If, after that it still happens go down the stored passwords in applications route

by pc21geek

If they are using windows XP, check to see if they have a stored password in their profile.
Start---Control panel---user accounts---advanced tab----manage passwords.
Perhaps she has an old password stored in there.

Something to look at to eliminate if thats it or not.
Good Luck
Kevin

by fastedj

We had the same problem with one of our end-users. We eventually discovered that she was logged onto a second workstation with her Windows session locked for over two months. During this time her password reached maximum age as per Domain Group Policy and was changed by her while logging onto workstation #1. This is when the mysterious lockouts began to occur. We noticed Kerberos errors on the DC security logs related to her account and workstation #2. The problem did not go away until she finally logged off of workstation #2.

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