Re: Other users unable to logon

From: Shenan Stanley (newshelper_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/10/05 

Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:17:43 -0500

Job Oloo wrote:
> One of the WinXP PCs on my network is not allowing other users to
> logon to it when the screen saver is turned on and the on resume
> password protection is enabled. It can only allow the user who was
> currently logged on or an administrator to log on.
>
> I am running on a Windows 2000 domain. And have other Windows XP
> machines with the same options working fine.

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> - The machine is locking on the display of a screensaver when a user
> is logged in and idle for a given amount of time and/or they
> manually lock it and walk away..
>
> What the above means is that only that user or and administrative
> user on that system can unlock the system - this is the way it was
> designed. If you have found a way "around" this - I would be
> interested to know. This is the way it has always worked..
>
> Or am I misunderstanding your question?

Job Oloo wrote:
> The logged on user does not have administrative priviledges both as a
> network user or as a local user on the machine. When logged onto the
> machine or onto the domain and the screen saver comes up, no one else
> is able to unlock the machine except the user or an administrator.
> This is a problem since this is a shared pc.

Well, I did understand and that is "by design". Once the machine is locked
(either by automatic or manual means) - the only way to unlock it is to have
an administrator of the machine (a user in the local administrators group)
"logon" to logout the current user or have the current user logout or with
the user of a logoff scheduled task/screensaver. 

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