Re: Accounts are getting locked

Hi Arnold,
Is there any way I can check & clean ?
Thanks in advance,
Harsha


"Hank Arnold" wrote:

> A bit from left field, but could it be someone has penetrated your system to
> the point of knowing the userids and is trying a dictionary attack??
>
> --
> Regards,
> Hank Arnold
>
> "Harsha" <Harsha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:13B06FE1-46FF-42EE-AFFE-36CC5DE67EEC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi,
> >
> > We are having a windows 2000 Server as a Domain Controller. Every now and
> > then, say every 20 days or so, all the 40 accounts are getting locked.
> > Unlocking was done manually going to property dialog of each user from
> > Active
> > Directory Users and Computers. Recently we prepared a .CMD script to
> > unlock
> > all the IDs.
> >
> > I observed it happening on some weekends on few occasions. Don't remember
> > whether all the instances happened on weekends.
> >
> > Antivirus is scheduled to start scanning on every Saturday. The scan takes
> > nearly 2 days. On Mondays afternoon it will complete scan operation. The
> > server has around 200 GB across SCSI disks.
> >
> > We are having the server from nearly 2 years. Problem started happening
> > from
> > last 8 months or so.
> >
> > Please help me in overcoming this problem.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Harsha
>
>
>
.

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