Disable logins?

[Michael A. Covington]

Is there a simple way to disable roaming user logins? (Like creating
/etc/nologon in UNIX.)

Thanks,


Michael A. Covington - Artificial Intelligence Ctr - University of Georgia

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[Steven L Umbach]

Not quite sure what you mean but there are a couple ways to control logons. In a
domain you can control which domain computers a domain user can logon to in their
account/properties/account/logon to in Active Directory Users and Computers as long
as netbios over tcp/ip is still enabled. There is a also a user right assignments for
logon locally and deny logon locally that can be configured in Local Security Policy
or at domain/Organizational Unit level for groups of computers. If you mean limiting
users to logon to just one computer at a time, you would need a third party
application or cconnect from the Resource Kit, though it requires a client component
and the use of a SQL server. --- Steve

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;237282
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;260364

 

[Michael A. Covington]

What I had in mind was something I could set on the server to stop users
from logging on, while I prepare to take the server down, or while I'm
working on it and not promising to keep it up.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You could stop or pause the server service [net stop server or net pause
server]. Stopping it will require you to stop dependent services and then
restarting them all again while pause will not. Stopping server will
disconnect current connected users while pause will prevent new connections
[except admins], but you may first want to use net send to notify users of
disconnection and then use net sessions * /delelte to close all current
sessions before pausing the server service. See link below for more
etails. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../2003/enterprise/proddocs/en-us/net_pause.asp
http://tinyurl.com/3d6k8 -- same link as above in case of wrap.

 

[Michael A. Covington]

Thanks. This, and your answer to my other question, were right on target.

You could stop or pause the server service [net stop server or net pause
server]. Stopping it will require you to stop dependent services and then
restarting them all again while pause will not. Stopping server will
disconnect current connected users while pause will prevent new connections
[except admins], but you may first want to use net send to notify users of
disconnection and then use net sessions * /delelte to close all current
sessions before pausing the server service. See link below for more
etails. --- Steve

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../2003/enterprise/proddocs/en-us/net_pause.asp
http://tinyurl.com/3d6k8 -- same link as above in case of wrap.

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What I had in mind was something I could set on the server to stop users
from logging on, while I prepare to take the server down, or while I'm
working on it and not promising to keep it up.

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