Re: Restricting Concurrent Users?

From: Joe Richards [MVP] (humorexpress@hotmail.com)
Date: 08/31/02 

From: "Joe Richards [MVP]" <humorexpress@hotmail.com>
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 15:57:36 -0400

The logon concept in Windows is a slippery thing. It isn't simple like it is
with a mainframe or something like that due to authentications being done
for network access to files, for runas, su, and other things as well as for
interactive logons on workstations.

In the resource kit there is a tool called cconnect.exe. It works in
conjunction with the logon script and a SQL Server to attempt to provide
limited logons. 

--
Joe Richards
www.joeware.net
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"Brandon" <brandon@none.com> wrote in message
news:eIr#yFGUCHA.3764@tkmsftngp08...
> This seems like it should be a very straightforward and easy thing to do,
> but I just couldn't figure it out.
>
> I am using Windows 2000 Server and I would like to restrict a username to
> have at most 1 instance of that name logged in at one time (i.e. no
> concurrent users of that username).
>
> A workaround I came up with would be to restrict each user name to exactly
1
> computer, but that doesn't seem to be a great solution for anything bigger
> than the smallest of networks.  Any help?  Thanks in advace.
>
> Brandon
>
>

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