Restricting logins? 1

[gbaughma]

Here's the situation. I have 4 kids all sharing a thin client hooked to a 2003 server. They each have their own login account, and I've set the account to log off after an hour of activity (they're allowed an hour each day on the computer.)

However, my son will just log back on after he's bumped off, spending hours online.

I need to find a way to let him log on for his hour a day, then lock out his account until Midnight, so he can have an hour the next day. Any thoughts?



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[porkchopexpress]

If you have active directory installed then you can set logon hours.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Windo...660a-48a0-a1e6-9a67252c6dd71033.mspx?mfr=true

 

[gbaughma]

True... I thought of that. However, that would mean that the kids would have to be "scheduled" exactly when they were allowed to log on.

That could cause a lot of issues, such as "We went to the grocery store during my logon time! That's not fair!" :-(

What I need is to allow them each to log on for 1 hour per day. Doesn't matter, really, when that hour starts, but once they've used their hour for the day, that's it. They're done until the next day.



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--Greg

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[markdmac]

Easy solution. Create a vbscript logoff script that will disable the account at logoff. So the autologoff will disable the account. Then run a second script at midnight that re-enables the accounts.

I hope you find this post helpful.

Regards,

Mark

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[AJ1982]

Not sure if you can do it with MS AD, you can with Novell, but thats a different issue

If your good with your scripting... what about having a file written to a protected area in the login script with the days date... 20070109.. etc etc Then an IF EXIST (Todays date) then issue the LOGOUT command on login with a polite message. Course that causes problems if they crash (Or they lie about it crashing , lol) or they split their sessions...

Erm, event logging...

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[Roadki11]

This looks like just what you want, pretty cheap also.

"Schedule the number of hours each child can use the computer, per day or by week"

http://kidswatch-time-control.computer-business-solutions-inc.qarchive.org/

RoadKi11

 

[gbaughma]

That kidswatch works OK.... it has served the purpose.

Now I gotta register it... lol



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