Have a 'restart' only on the log on screen.

[Peter Lawlor]

Hello,

I'm running a quite few computers that run dual disks,
windows 2000, and linux.

And I was wondering is there a way, to disable the
shutdown option on the log on screen, and when your logged
on.

I know you can disable the 'shutdown' buttons,
But we are avoiding on people pressing the 'power/restart'
buttons on the computers themself.

At night times, we have a sysadmin for linux, and hes
running a 'Grid' during the night.
And he wants the pcs (approx 40 of them) all online, after
we all go home.

That the students stay here until 9pm at the most.
They sometimes press the shutdown and shut down the
computer, or press the button on the casing.

We get very annoyed.

It's not good when they have shutted down. And the grid
gives out errors.

But yeah, anyways.

Is there a way to disable all of the shut down options.
And just have a restart option on the logon screen on
windows 2000,


Thanks
Pete

 

[Enno Lenze]

But we are avoiding on people pressing the 'power/restart'

buttons on the computers themself.

diconnect the cable between power button and mainboar. You can still
use power on/off LAN, and the Power switch at teh ower supply

At night times, we have a sysadmin for linux, and hes

bring him some presents, he is the good guy in the company

That the students stay here until 9pm at the most.
They sometimes press the shutdown and shut down the
computer, or press the button on the casing.

we had a computer room with about 40 clients, all remote conrtolled with
a power on lan script. really handy


regards, enno

 

[Peter Lawlor]

-----Original Message-----

diconnect the cable between power button and mainboar. You can still
use power on/off LAN, and the Power switch at teh ower supply

bring him some presents, he is the good guy in the company


we had a computer room with about 40 clients, all remote conrtolled with
a power on lan script. really handy


regards, enno

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diconnect the cable between power button and mainboar. You can still
use power on/off LAN, and the Power switch at teh ower

supply


That's what we thought.
But what if we need to switch them off?
Say for example, the computer crashes, unexpectedly. (very
very very un-usual.)

The Power switch can be a pain in the ass.
So we have a total of 120 computers, in 4 rooms.
And they all clamped underneith the desk. And we don't
feel like crawling under each desk and pressing the switch
on the power supply.

bring him some presents, he is the good guy in the company

Okay. Not very helpful.

we had a computer room with about 40 clients, all remote conrtolled with
a power on lan script. really handy

Yeah, We have tried that.
BUT, with the new machines.
They don't have a WOL socket on the motherboard.

So we tried waking them up with a linux WOL script. But
not-successful.

We tried it with an older computer, (with WOL connection
between the motherboard and the network card)
And it works.


We just want all the computers, switched on.
Without even going near them.

We do all the cloning from one machine.
And they all work, no need to go near them. Unless
hardware porblems/upgrading/etc.


but yeah, thanks
Pete

 

[Enno Lenze]

But what if we need to switch them off?

Usually you have an additionally power switch at the power supply.
Otherwise: Disconnect the power cable

And they all clamped underneith the desk. And we don't
feel like crawling under each desk and pressing the switch
on the power supply.

ok, so you can use a (urgs..only dictionary is in maintaince)
set of power jacks with a switch (something like a hub for power, don't
know the word) . i.e. one switch for one table of computers.

Okay. Not very helpful.

for him it is

Yeah, We have tried that.
BUT, with the new machines.
They don't have a WOL socket on the motherboard.

i see. At us the network adapters managed it (if i recall correctly)

We just want all the computers, switched on.
Without even going near them.

Maybe the bios has the feature "power on after power failure" so they
will boot as soon as they got power. (only helpfull, if you have a main
power switch)

regards, enno