Account lock outs

[RAYMFC]

Dear all,

Need your help with have one user account that keeps locking out whilst the user is logged on!!!!!

Any ideas

Cheers

RAYMFC

 

[likelylad]

I had a similar problem.
It would only happen on some Win95/98 PC's.
If the user wasn't using his PC for half an hour the network connection would drop and lock out the user account.

There is a registry setting that can be changed to hold open the network connection, unfortunately I'm still looking.

As an stopgap measure I have put a .bat file in the startup menu (of the PC that was locking out the account)containing the following line

ping [servername] -t

Replace [servername] with your Wins/DNS server.
It will continuously ping the server so that the network connection will not drop.
Just minimise it when it starts.

Hope this helps

 

[Funkymatt]

Or...if you're using windows 2000 you could take advantage of the Scheduled Tasks and schedule (say every 25minutes) a ping to run in the backgroud.

~M