Hi,

I have just updated to the latest build of Spiceworks.

Since doing this my own domain user account in AD seems to be constantly getting locked out.

I have been through the DC failure audit logs. These are all originating from the Spiceworks server.

Any ideas what could cause this?

These are only occurring for my own account. I have had a look through the spiceworks settings and not found any reference to my domain user account.

Thanks.

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Are you using your domain account to perform the scans?

Haha Thanks.

Looks like when I setup spiceworks I added a number of accounts to try get some pc’s that wouldn’t scan to work including my own desktop.

Chances are its because of this.

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Yes this will be it Harbir.

I’d recommend making a dedicated account just for scanning. Saves this sort of problem in future :slight_smile:

What local groups should this account be a member of for it to be used to scan?

I have a feeling that it needs full domain admin permissions.

So a domain account with local admin rights?

Yes that should do it.

When spiceworks reads data through WMI, it needs quite a lot of permissions due to where it gathers the information from.

Great thanks.

Local admin will / should work every time. Domain admin should also work.