Re: 27,538 Sign-on attempts not valid

["Steve Landess" <sjl_123@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Bryan wrote:
> This morning user profile ELOYV showed a status of disabled and 27,538
> invalid sign-on attempts.  I changed the password for the profile
yesterday
> at 14:36:24 and QSYSWRK disabled the profile at 14:40:09.
>
> QAUDJRNE shows PW entries every two seconds from 14:40:00 yesterday to
> 7:10:17 this morning.  I enabled the profile at 07:19 this morning and
went
> over to the work station, a production floor PC.  The work station runs
> W2000 and CAE V4R5.  There was a window on the workstation indicating
ELOYV
> was disabled.  I entered the correct password and signed on.
>
> I originally thought there must have been a macro running but now I think
> it's a software bug.  Any thoughts on what caused all these sign-on
> attempts?

Bryan,
Have you used Windows on this PC to map a drive letter to a folder in the
IFS, specifying "Connect with a different user name"?

If so, Windows (or an application running on this PC) may be automatically
trying to access the mapped drive periodically, and if the password for the
userid that you specified when mapping the drive has been changed, it will
eventually disable the iSeries user profile, based on the system values for
QAXSGNACN and QMAXSIGN.

This has happened to me more than once.  Now, before I change my password on
the iSeries, I disconnect all mapped drives.  After I change my password, I
then map them again, specifying the userid and the new password.

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935