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by yorkster

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I'm having a problem where user changes their passwords anfd then their account gets locked out. Network is all Windows 2000 servers and clients. This onlt seams to happen if the user changes their password when prompted that your :password will expire in X number of days" But if they change their password by doing a Cntrl-Alt-Del and then select change password all is ok.

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by big ray

Are they authenticating to other services when they login. If the users authenticate to other services that still have the old password, they can lock themselves out.

by yorkster

I wouldn't say that they authenticate to other services, but they do have some mapped drives that get created by logon script.

by magetower

The login script is your problem. When you change the password during the login the DC that accepts the change still has to notify the other DCs of the change and AD replication is not immediate. This problem does not arrise with mapped drives in the user profile because W2K does not make the connection until use want to use the mapped drive but does come into play with drives mapped through login batch jobs because it tries to make the attachement at the time it runs.

Hope this helps...

by alajaji

Two things have to be checked. You have to make sure the machine used by the user has SP4 the second version or better. Secondly, the Winnt in that machine has to be shared. If not, it will stop the regedit file, which will be updated from the server with the policy of the server, from being upadated.

I hope that will help.
Sulaiman

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