John Weller said:
I have a security password that I use after the computer
is idle for 15 minutes. All morning the password worked
fine. After lunch I was unable to log back in using the
same password I used all morning. How can I log back in?
Is the securty password you mention the W2K password? If so, can you
log on as administrator>
1) Depending on the security policy, the user account may have become
locked out if the maximum allowed number of non successful log -on
attempts was exceeded. This could have happened by someone trying to
log on during the lunch break. (the admin account cannot be locked
out)
2) There was a "feature" in W2K which caused all non-admin accounts
the become inactive (locked out?) when the security log overflowed
(depending on settings). It's possible that this has been patched
now, I saw it a couple of years ago on a machine. There was some info
on the net and a few usenet posts. The admin account remained OK.
Roger