Hi all, I am looking for any sugestions regarding limiting the number of simultaneous logins a particular useranme can make (generally limit to one only) for a small (read broke/poor) community college.
I am aware of CConnect (from the Win2k resource kit) but it requires a SQL database which simply is not available (finance situation above). I have also found "User Lock" from http://www.softwareshelf.com/products/display.asp?p=42 but the pricing / licencing model makes it extremely difficult when you have in excess of 1000 users who generally atttend once a week or so. It means that an environment where there are only 60 or so PC's ends up licencing a product for 1000's of users at once. Googling, begging and pleading have yeilded me nothing, so now I come with hat in hand to ask for some advice .... has anyone seen / used any cheap (preferably free !) software that can limit the number of times a single user id can be logged on. The environemnt is all native Win2k with domain authentication. If you haven't seen any third-party software that can perform this task, I have also considered writing this as part of a logon script, ie: when a user logs in, their username is writen to a 'logged on users' file (or creates a lock file ???) and this file is queried before allowing the user to complete the logon process, denying the login if the username already exists .... unfortunately I have no idea how to write most of this script, so if anyone has any suggestions I would be most appreciative. Any replies, on or off the list would be really appreciated, Thanks in advance Dave ... A Unix box, a Unix box, my entire %#&ing Windows network for a Unix box :p
