Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Account Lockout Troubleshooting

zwinter · 03-31-2010, 01:08 PM

Anyone out there know of Linux or open-source tools that can be used to trace specific processes that are locking out Active Directory 2003 accounts? I have a user on our network that keeps getting locked out and we cannot figuer out why. I've tried the Microsoft Account Lockout Tools and they have helped us narrow it down to the user's computer but it doesn't get any more specific than that.

Any ideas? If if runs in Linux, that's fine because I have a Ubuntu VM.

acid_kewpie · 03-31-2010, 01:21 PM

have you tried just inspecting the network traffic? use a tool like wireshark to capture it and decode the requests, may shed more light.

zwinter · 03-31-2010, 03:06 PM

My only concern about using a tool like Wireshark is just having to sift through a lot of information. Part of it may be that I'm not 100% familiar with it but I'm think I'd have to filter it to just TCP requests right?

acid_kewpie · 03-31-2010, 04:20 PM

well "just" tcp is probably about 90% of the network traffic... You've not detailed how often this happens, if there's some behaviour like rebooting it which affects this account lockout.

Windows. Don't you just love it?

sheykh · 08-20-2010, 11:14 AM

Yeah. I'm wondering the same thing. The issue with running a wireshark trace. Even if you do all the filtering out. Its still hard to pindown WHEN and WHERE it happens. Be nice if there was a handy tool that can track this down. What I love about M$? The upteenbillion service accounts that we need on the network. Then giving all the developers access to those accounts, enabling them to remote onto servers, crash DB's, and generally cause havok on the network, and get upset when they lock out the dumb account..... =\