We're thinking of setting up a hotel business centre using samba as a PDC to dynamically create user accounts, allow/disallow user access and time usage, using samba login and logout prompts. Sounds really simple and elegant, but when a user logs out of the windows machine, will samba always execute the required logout script? How reliable is this? (It has to be, as we're envisaging it as the basis for billing).
Reliably ensuring that the users log out?
No, there is no way of doing this. Many people will turn off the computer and walk away, and call that "logging out". I've worked with software engineers (BSc in computer science) that did that.
-- Del
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