Constant Password Expriy

[Liam1]

Hello,

For the past month I have been continuously been locked out of my machine.

I changed my password a month ago, and this is when the trouble started. All Task Manager applications have been switched off, and the NT Roaming Profile has been re-built twice.

Microsoft Office is installed and some other bespoke mainframe packages that do not use winNT security. We also use McAfee Virus Scan v4.5.1 SP1.

The password has been reset BACK to what it was a month ago, and yet the problem still persists.

Has anyone experienced this before?
Could it be a mapping problem with a new netowrk Drive?
Could it be Internet Exporer?

Our IT Help desk are out of ideas and I'm doing my nut!

Thanks in Advance,

Liam1

 

[wotsit]

Hey Liam

We had a similar problem with one of our users. The only way around it we found was to delete his domain user and recreate it. This may work for you as well, but then again it may not. Worth a try though.

Hope this helps

wotsit

 

[edlcsre]

Hi Liam1

I had a similar problem a couple of years back, I changed my password on NT and the account kept locking out. Better than that, if I went into my account properties, I could see the incorrect login count ticking up!!!

It turns out I had been working on a server where I'd logged in with a local admin account. However, I'd then mapped a drive to the network using my domain account, before locking the server and forgetting all about it. It would appear that it was the mapped drive trying to authenticate with the old password which was causing the problem. Not sure if it could be the same for you, especially as you've changed the password back to the old one again. If you're curious, see if you can get IT helpdesk to increase the number of incorrect logins before the account is locked out to a really big number (say 99) and you might be able to see the number increasing as the connection fails and re-tries. If you can think of any machines you might have mapped a drive on to check, it might be worth your time.

The 'easiest' way to resolve it would be to delete and re-create your account. New SID will mean the old mapping won't lock out the new one.

Good luck!

edlcsre

 

[rdroske]

Deleting the account is definitely the easiest way and should work but you will be leaving some process somewhere trying to log in and failing.

I would turn on Auditing for failed logins on your DC's and check the logs. Should tell you what machine is causing the problem.