TheFanatic
MIS
I support a small production department full of Macs. 4 guys, all Mac users. The rest of my 40+ users are PC users and I'm not the strongest Mac guy on the planet.
Got a weird error message this morning. All 4 Mac users got the same error message at some point throughout the morning. The message is as follows:
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"<Server Name> (<IP Address>) via TCP/IP"
You will be disconnected from the file server in 10 minutes
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Every minute after that they would get the identical error message but the minutes left would drop a minute for each instance. When the 10 minutes was up, the File server booted them and some of them lost some work. They were required to change their passwords.
At first I thought it had to do with some of these guys leaving files open for weeks at a time without turning the system off. But one guy got in late, booted up his mac and it gave him the same error with only 2 minutes notice.
So I figured that there was some problem with Active Directory telling the Macs that the users needed to change their passwords. So to keep ut from happening again I went into AD and set all of their passwords to never expire. Except when I got to the last guy on the list to change the password settings, his was already set to never expire. So now I have no idea why this happened.
A little background. All of the Macs are fairly new. 3 purchased in the last 2 years, the 4th is a 500 Mhz IMac. I've only been here 2 years, so I don't know how long we've had that one. The Network is a Windows 2K network with A/D.
Got a weird error message this morning. All 4 Mac users got the same error message at some point throughout the morning. The message is as follows:
----------------------
"<Server Name> (<IP Address>) via TCP/IP"
You will be disconnected from the file server in 10 minutes
----------------------
Every minute after that they would get the identical error message but the minutes left would drop a minute for each instance. When the 10 minutes was up, the File server booted them and some of them lost some work. They were required to change their passwords.
At first I thought it had to do with some of these guys leaving files open for weeks at a time without turning the system off. But one guy got in late, booted up his mac and it gave him the same error with only 2 minutes notice.
So I figured that there was some problem with Active Directory telling the Macs that the users needed to change their passwords. So to keep ut from happening again I went into AD and set all of their passwords to never expire. Except when I got to the last guy on the list to change the password settings, his was already set to never expire. So now I have no idea why this happened.
A little background. All of the Macs are fairly new. 3 purchased in the last 2 years, the 4th is a 500 Mhz IMac. I've only been here 2 years, so I don't know how long we've had that one. The Network is a Windows 2K network with A/D.