Login Limits

[Allison]

Is there a way to limit the number of logins of users in Windows 2000? I
want my users to be able to login to only one workstation at a time.

thanks

 

[Matt Anderson]

Is there a way to limit the number of logins of users in Windows 2000? I
want my users to be able to login to only one workstation at a time.

This functionality is not built in.

Matt

 

[Cary Shultz [A.D. MVP]]

Allison,

I would suggest that you take a look at cconnect.exe. This is a utility
from the Resource Kit and does require a SQL database ( not sure if you have
to use specifically SQL or if some other database - like MySQL - would do
the trick for you ).

Also I believe that Jerold has a solution for this at his web site (
http://www.jsiinc.com ).

HTH,

Cary

 

[Ryan Hanisco]

Allison,

Just like everyone is telling you, there isn't an easy way to do this. You
should really look at why you want to enforce such a policy and how that
fits into the business needs of your organization.

If you want to do a bit of coding, you can write a logon script that will
track the logon events in a database with a time stamp. If there is a
record for that user tied to a workstation then call the Logoff.exe file to
boot them out.

This isn't terribly hard and would work, though it is not using actual logon
as its information source. You would also have to put a script on logoff to
clear it and use the time stamp as a threshold -- in case they just
disconnect, so as not to lock them out forever.

There may be a way to check if there are logons programmatically, but I
don't know that part of the API. Maybe I'll get constructive tonight and
try to code this for you.