HOWTO disconnect consolle?

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Albe V°

I've a W2000 Server SP4, with Terminal Services enabled for administration
purposes.
This server is in a remote production plant, phisically available for many
users, but with very limited (both for O.S. and NTFS security) rights.
Now, checking the server via RAS, I see that a consolle session is logged on
since many days, but with a poweruser login (who knows how the password has
been retrieved...). Unfortunately, this poweruser has NTFS rights and so,
any person walking near the server can take the mouse and damage data or
application on reserved partitions.
I definitely need to force logoff of the consolle session, but this is not
possible using TS management consolle.
I tried to change login properties setting a autodisconnect timeout, but
this doesn't work (probably this applies at next user login).

How can I proceed to disconnect that user, if possible without rebooting the
server??

Thanks


Alberto


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Vera Noest [MVP]

I'm not sure if you can do this remotely, since you cannot connect
to or shadow the console session on W2K TS, but you might try
rwinsta or even rkill, with a sessionID of 0 or a sessionname of
"Console".

243202 - Windows 2000 Terminal Services Session Management Tools
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243202
 
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Albe V°

Vera said:
I'm not sure if you can do this remotely, since you cannot connect
to or shadow the console session on W2K TS, but you might try
rwinsta or even rkill, with a sessionID of 0 or a sessionname of
"Console".

243202 - Windows 2000 Terminal Services Session Management Tools
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=243202
Click to expand...

Thanks Vera for your attention.

Unfortunately Reset Session stops with "access denied" error.

The session is still on.
Worst of all, today in the morning someone inserted a USB pen drive and, I
suppose, copied data on it, as the consolle session is logged on with a user
with too high rights...

I'm going to reboot the server, hoping everything goes right.

Bye

Alberto
 
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