On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:43:20 +0100 Rick van Hattem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:32, Jos� Angel Rodr�guez Leyva wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a little dialin server running Gentoo, and I'm using Freeradius > > to manage the users weekly time quota they have assigned. Many of > > them (on Windows desktops) reach the quota max time before week ends, > > and are calling me constantly asking if there's a problem with their > > accounts, because they never get the real pppd error message due to > > Windows dialup program never show those messages. I was looking for a > > windows dialup replacement, but I can't find any. > > > > I gave them two ways, by mail and by web, to get the quota status, but > > many of them aren't smart enough to understand this. I will thank > > for any suggestion. > > > > Greeting > > > > Jose A. R. > > > > -- > > [email protected] mailing list > It is possible to let windows show the messages but I doubt if they will > understand it after that. > I'm affraid the only way is writing your own little app, atleast if you want > it easy so everyone understands then its probably the only option. > I don't know if you have any experience with VB but it shouldn't be too hard > to create something like that. > > There might be another option aswell, let them connect and if they have > reached there quota then they can't visit any pages and get distconnected > after a minute, shouldn't be too hard to fix. > > > -- > Rick van Hattem Rick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl how about redirecting all their web traffic to a page that says "sucker you are expired" - a bit like a captive portal. maybe politer if they are paying customers :-) > > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [email protected] mailing list
