User locked out everytime he restarts

[Cider]

Hey guys,

Need your wisdom.

I have this one user that keeps getting locked out every time he restarts his PC.

We have a 3 wrong entry lockout system but every time on restart , we have to unlock this account as it gets locked out.

Any reason why this would happen?

His PC - Vista fully updated
Server - 2k3 with AD.

[Cheap Scotch Ron]

If he has mapped drive set to automatically reconnect and the saved passwords are wrong, that would do it.

[morganlefay]

Or..,....maybe there is something wrong with the keyboard...where a key either doesnt work or...enters mulitple characters

MLF

[Cider]

Yeah he does have mapped drives.

I have asked him to delete them and then restart to try and reproduce.

However, if he logs in fine, wouldn't those credentials be used for the mapped drives?

MLF - if what you are saying is true, then he wouldnt be able to log in?

[morganlefay]

I guess so...maybe he is just typing in his password wrong.

I have a keyboard that is slow in response and I regulary mistype passwords because of it.

What version of Vista is this...just curious.

MLF

[Cider]

Vista business.

I would agree he could be typing his password wrong but doubt it ...

We have other people in the office with mapped drives and dont have an issue.

[SirDice]

He may be logged in on another machine with the old password. That will lock him out if the password changes.

[morganlefay]

I read somewhere that if the machine then is not correctly added to the domian ...this issue will occur.

MLF

[Cheap Scotch Ron]

However, if he logs in fine, wouldn't those credentials be used for the mapped drives?

MLF may be onto something.

I recall being at a client and having a similar issue with one of my laptops. I had a several mapped drives for different work/internal departments at this large client of mine. All the mappings were using my domain account (w/ the auto reconnect feature). However, because my laptop was not part of their domain, it was using my old credentials for some reason and as a result, I got locked out upon changing my password. Deleting the mapped drives worked. I simply built a script for each department with NET USE statements without credentials and I let it prompt me. Kinda of a pain, but it worked.

That is until they found out I was using my laptop instead of their P.O.S.

[JPnyc]

Ron, why so blue?



(Sorry, couldn't help it. Should have tried harder, eh?)