GFI Mail Archiver and MSQL 2000 problems

[JoeZ430]

We have GFI Mail Archiver installed on a separate server from my Exchange server. We will call this "server2".

Server2 is logged in as a domain admin account we will call "admin".

When ever the Mail Archiver serverice is running on server2, the domain account admin gets locked out every 60 seconds. I am NOT using the admin account anywhere in the Mail Archiver configuration, and the Mail Archiver service is running as local.

This is making it impossible for me to use GFI Mail Archiver.

We have now confirmed this to be on the SQL server end where Mail Archiver writes the emails to for archiving. We switched the Mail Archiver configuration to point to a database on another server, and the lockouts went away. This is not the solution, as that was just a test so we need to find out what inside SQL server 2000 is harboring old bad login credentials for this "ABC" account. We have, to the best of our knowledge, removed all references to the ABC account from that SQL server, and it is still happening. We are missing something in there.


Any ideas?

Thanks,

Joe

 

[mrdenny]

Sounds like the SQL Server on server2 is running under the admin account and it's trying to start with the wrong password. Check the security logs on the domain controllers. The password failures and lockout will be logged as to what machine is locking the account.

Denny
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