Re: Domain Administrator Locked

Hi,

Goes to show you as mentioned in numerous books and
articles...........Make sure you as an admin have a back door account
so you will not have to go through this situation again.

Harj Singh
Power Your Active Directory Investment
www.specopssoft.com


On Jan 25, 1:32 pm, "Herb Martin" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Smokey" <smo...@xxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:12rht5jeta3addb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

rovert506 wrote:
Try logging in via the Server's local Administrator account. You should
be able to unlock the Domain Admin's account that way.

Hope this helps!

-TM

There is no local administrator account on a DC. It is an active directory
administator account. period. Best bet is to hope he put a time limit for
the lockout, if not you will need to reboot the server. btw, do you only
have admin rights on your administrator account, there is not another
account in the domain with domain admin access ?Well, there is a local admin account (aka Directory Services Restore Mode
password) on a DC but that isn't going to reset the domain admins account
(directly).

The poster is likely hosed -- faced with cracking his own database --
maybe getting ahold of it with that local admin account.

Try:

Insecure.org and follow the link to Network Security tools where
there is a section on password crackers.

--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVPhttp://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)

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