Windows 2000 Lockout issue

[Pkruz]

Hello,

Hope someone can help. The Admins here do not even know this one.

There is a win2000 server with the accounts setup to lock after 3 attempts.

Periodically it will prompt you that the system has been locked by the system administrator. Once you try 3 times on the 4th it lets you in.

Here is the kicker
The event log shows that the account was locked out by a bad attempt/s. Even though I can log in.

It then will say later in the evening that someone tried to log in evey hour on the hour.

Has anyone seen this?


Thanks

 

[tom11011]

Could you have a service running that uses a username to start the service? Or, perhaps a scheduled task running as a certain user?

 

[Guest_imported]

I agree. We had a similar issue (with MS SQL i think) where the DBA had installed the software/service with a "Log On As" setting and it locked that user's account out of the system. Look in Services for any Log On As settings other than LocalSystem. Good luck.

 

[Guest_imported]

I agree. We had a similar issue (with MS SQL i think) where the DBA had installed the software/service with a "Log On As" setting and it locked that user's account out of the system. Look in Services for any Log On As settings other than LocalSystem. Good luck.