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A few ideas: How about service accounts such as Exchange and backup? You might have to call Microsoft. A far fetch idea: If you have a recent ERD for the PDC, you might be able to restore the SAM at time prior to the account lockouts. Off course you will loose changes made since then. It's probably a good idea to shutdown the BDCs before trying this. Firm. -----Original Message----- From: Gordon Williams [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 5:08 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Account Lockout!!! Thanks for the suggestion, Firm. This product seems to replace the admin account password (assuming PW is not known). Our situation is different... we know the passwords of the various admin accounts -- but ALL accounts with admin privs have been locked out (on 6 NT4 servers in 3 different domains plus 2 W2K standalone servers). What we need is a utility to go in and UNLOCK the admin accounts. Any suggestions? Currently, we have no access to these 8 servers (no admin access). This appears to have happened on all 8 servers between 8 am on Thursday & 8 am on Friday. Gordon ----- "Charlot, Firmin" wrote: > > Fred, > There is a tool out there that allows you to reset admin pws. It's about > $70.00. I have used the demo version and it found the admin id even if it > was renamed. > Go to http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=265 > > Firmin Charlot > AIS > [log in to unmask] > > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Ododa [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 3:55 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Account Lockout!!! > > Admins, > > Has anyone stumbled on this kind of situation??? > Yesterday, we discovered that all the accounts in the admin group had a > LOCKOUT, such that none of the admins can login to the server. > The affected servers are WinNT4 servers which are in different domains and > also some Win2K standalone servers all are at Olin health center, none of my > servers at Student services are having this problem. > > The only account that is not locked is the one that is not on the admin > group - therefore has limited functuinality. Unfortunately the lockout reset > duration on this servers were set to forever (only be unlocked by an admin). > > Is there a way of reseting the account to enable us login. > > Please HELP HELP HELP!!! > > -- > > Fred Ododa, MCSE,CNA > Network Administrator > Counseling Center > Michigan State University > Phone: (517) 355-8270 > Fax: (517) 353-5582 > Email: [log in to unmask] > > --