Forcing interactive login from another station?

[Sonny Nicolas]

Greetings,

We are currently running about 50 Windows XP stations in a educational
computer lab environment.

All stations are part of a domain running under a Windows 2000 Adv. Server
PDC.

We would like to be able to force a "interactive login" from a central
teacher PC.

When we have young kids coming in, who cannot log in, we would like to have
the teacher perform the logins from a central point.

Case Scenario:

- All workstations are logged out.
- A teacher sends a "login" command through the network, effectively logging
in a user on all the workstations and starting their sessions (profile,
etc).

After reading up on all of this, I'm a little lost as to where we should
start.

Can this be done through the framework?

Do we need to create a custom authentication package? Replace GINA with our
own?

Any pointers or recommendations would be appreciated.

Sonny Nicolas

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[Girish Bharadwaj]

If these are hard requirements, I guess you will have to write a GINA dll.
(ugh!).
Otherwise, you might be able to use some of the WMI features to reboot the
machines.
(http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/3/RebootingRemoteServerWithWMIJOD.asp shows
how to reboot a server remotely.)

And enable AutoAdminLogin features of the NT systems.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;234562 has more
information about this.

Or better still, Terminal server might be a good investment for this.