Frank Krueger's questions

My team uses a virtual Windows Server 2008 to store our code repository. We all login using a shared user account. The IT department requires that we keep the automatic account locking for mistyped passwords turned on.

Every so often the account gets locked out because of this.

Is there a log or something that I can enable to track login attempts? I would love to get a host name, or even an IP address of these attempts so that we can track down who is having trouble with this system. We do have admin access to the virtual machine.

Pre-emptive I know that using shared user accounts isn't the recommended way to do this, but we are stuck with that system.

Today I got the arguments backwards when issuing xcopy. This caused my source folder to be overwritten.

The system is Windows 2003 with standard NTFS. No special backup solutions running.

Is there any way to recover those files?

I have multiple network interfaces on a Windows client machine. I would like for some IP traffic to go through one card and other traffic to go through the other card based upon the IP (actually, I would prefer domain names) of the destination server.

I see no way to configure this using the Windows GUI.

Can I do this in WinXP+?

If it's complicated, then some pointers to good articles would be sufficient as my Googling skillz seems to fail here.