Re: account lockout gpo

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From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:56:58 -0500

"Julie" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:22cad01c45e44$091ed860$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I had the account lockout policy enabled for the default
> group policy for the domain but clients were getting
> locked out when they had not even reached the limit. Some
> accounts were disabled after one attempt. I quickly
> removed those policy settings but it still occurs. Any
> help would be appreaciated. We are running W2K Advanced
> Server SP3.

This just doesn't happen -- ok, any bug is POSSIBLE, but we just
don't hear this one very often.

Turn on Account Logon Auditing and count the failures.

Remember it is not "logons" that really matter but rather
AUTHENTICATION failures.

What are your settings for the Lockout elements?

> Thanks in advance 

-- 
Herb Martin

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