Re: Why do some user accounts show up as never used?

Thanks for this info. I have tried it on OS9.? and OS10.? (i'm not the mac 
guy but I can get around) and it works well. They can now change passwords

even with more than 8 characters. They also get notification they need to 
change it. Great!

BUT - the DCs still do not record the logon as they do with a PC logging
in. 
The logontimestamp does not get changed. I created a virgin account and
only 
used it logging on with the MAC and it still never recorded any logon 
timestamps on the DCs. So I still can only determine if the accounts are 
being used by the PwdExpires attribute. The server holding the share has a

log of the access and the record shows NTLM authentication was used - not 
exactly NTLMv2 which I expected.

SO - I am going to try to test how the NTLMv2 works. It looks as if now
they 
are still actually using plain ntlm as the server had needed to be set to 
allow this. I set up a new test server with the local security policy set
to 
a higher standard - NTLMv2 only. I'll let you know how it works out.





"Tilmon Wooden" <twooden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:BF900CBB.957F%twooden@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On 11/1/05 8:22 AM, in article #XkQaBv3FHA.3900@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Adrian Rodriguez" <arodriguez@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> We have many Mac users who's windows account is only used for getting 
>> email
>> or having access to a share. They do not login to a Windows PC
anywhere.
>>
>> The problem is that when looking over these users accounts, they show
up 
>> as
>> never being logged into. Our method of weeding out unused user accounts

>> is
>> hampered by this anomaly.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>>
>
> I've had that same problem until I've found out about the MSUAM.
>
> Try downloading the "Microsoft User Authentication Module" (MSUAM).
>
>
(http://download.microsoft.com/download/win2000srv/Install/1/MacOS/EN-US/MSU
> AM_for_X.hqx)
>
> There is also one for anyone using OS9.2 or Classic
>
>
(http://tc.versiontracker.com/product/redir/lid/137191/MSUAM_for_Classic.hqx
> )
>
> See the link below for details
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003/library/Serve
> rHelp/a8f0fddc-c539-4e02-b313-f6d86515b08f.mspx
>