Limit Users

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If you create a new user I know that you can stop them getting into certain
parts of the PC, that only the system Admin can only get to, but can you only
let that user long on between a certain time say 10am-10pm or not so then I
know they have got off the computer. Do you have to have a certain piece of
software? If so what is it?

Please Help
Thanks
Alastair Gray
 
You have to run a server to activate that option in the XP client. Unless
you are familiar with writing scripts, there is no way to enforce logon
times in XP when not part of a domain.
 
"You have to run a server"!!!

I THINK NOT!

From The Internet:

Setting Restricted Login Hours on XP
This was cribbed from a "best of the newsgroups" article on TechNet:

I recently had to contact Microsoft Tech Support for assistance on this so I
wanted to post the article on the web incase someone else had this same
issue.

Situation: You want to restrict the logon days / times of a user account in
XP and are a standalone machine.

Reason: You may wish to restrict teens who arrive home before adult
supervision from accessing your broadband always on connection, limit
employees to only work hours access etc..

Steps:

To Set restrictions:

Click Start

Click Run

Type cmd in the run box and press enter.

The following is a sample of what you would type:
net user testuser /times:M-F,5pm-9pm; Sa,6am-9pm;Su,6am-9pm
Where testuser is the local account name.

To Remove Restrictions:

Click Start

Click Run

Type cmd in the run box and press enter.

The following is a sample of what you would type:
net user testuser /times:all
Where testuser is the local account name.




Hope this helps,
BMR777
 
Thanks I have done that. It now says:

C:\Documents and Settings\other>net user other /times:M-F,10am-10pm;
Sa,10am-10pm; Su,10am-10pm
The syntax of this command is:

NET USER
[username [password : *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
username {password : *} /ADD [options] [/domain]
username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]

C:\Documents and Settings\other>


I hope this is what should come up if I wanted to only let the user called
other allowed on between 10am-10pm. Please say this is right if not tell me
what is wrong.

Thanks
Alastair Gray
 
What you can not do without a 3rd party program is force them off at a
certain time.
The person will not be able to log on outside the times set.
But the user can stay on indefinitely regardless the settings as long as
they logged on in the set timeframe so Mark was correct in his response.

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Alastairg100 said:
Thanks I have done that. It now says:

C:\Documents and Settings\other>net user other /times:M-F,10am-10pm;
Sa,10am-10pm; Su,10am-10pm
The syntax of this command is:

NET USER
[username [password : *] [options]] [/DOMAIN]
username {password : *} /ADD [options] [/domain]
username [/DELETE] [/DOMAIN]

C:\Documents and Settings\other>


I hope this is what should come up if I wanted to only let the user called
other allowed on between 10am-10pm. Please say this is right if not tell
me
what is wrong.

Thanks
Alastair Gray

BMR777 said:
"You have to run a server"!!!

I THINK NOT!

From The Internet:

Setting Restricted Login Hours on XP
This was cribbed from a "best of the newsgroups" article on TechNet:

I recently had to contact Microsoft Tech Support for assistance on this
so I
wanted to post the article on the web incase someone else had this same
issue.

Situation: You want to restrict the logon days / times of a user account
in
XP and are a standalone machine.

Reason: You may wish to restrict teens who arrive home before adult
supervision from accessing your broadband always on connection, limit
employees to only work hours access etc..

Steps:

To Set restrictions:

Click Start

Click Run

Type cmd in the run box and press enter.

The following is a sample of what you would type:
net user testuser /times:M-F,5pm-9pm; Sa,6am-9pm;Su,6am-9pm
Where testuser is the local account name.

To Remove Restrictions:

Click Start

Click Run

Type cmd in the run box and press enter.

The following is a sample of what you would type:
net user testuser /times:all
Where testuser is the local account name.




Hope this helps,
BMR777
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