they leave their computer on all the time...

[Dooma]

My staff always leave their 2k Professional machines on all day and all
night with out logging off. Is their a way to make the machine logoff (not
shut down) after a certain period of time?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
My staff always leave their 2k Professional machines on all day and all
night with out logging off. Is their a way to make the machine logoff (not
shut down) after a certain period of time?


.

Search for CConnect ( Concurrent Connections ) on
microsoft website.... That may help you... I am not
exactly sure where to get it.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Have you told them that it is your policy that they must log off at night?
Or when they are away from their computers for an extended period of time?
This is a behavioral issue more than a technical one.

If they have files open, they're going to lose data if you force a logoff -
and from what I've read in here forced logoffs don't really work all that
well. Corrections are as usual most welcome - I'd like to know it too.

 

[Paul Adare]

microsoft.public.win2000.security news group,
(e-mail address removed)

Search for CConnect ( Concurrent Connections ) on
microsoft website.... That may help you... I am not
exactly sure where to get it.

CConnect does exactly what it's name implies, prevents concurrent
connections from more than 1 system. Has absolutely nothing to do with
auto-log off. It is a resource kit utility, but it also requires SQL
Server.

 

[Dooma]

Unfortunately, we have a high turn over staff. I can not keep up with them.
I wanted something that will force them to do that? I understand the lose of
open files and the lost of data. This is an employee problem. It is like
losing power at night and you do not have UPS.

any ides.
"Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"

 

[Jeff Cochran]

My staff always leave their 2k Professional machines on all day and all
night with out logging off. Is their a way to make the machine logoff (not
shut down) after a certain period of time?

Graceful logofs are tough to script, but sometimes a brute-force
method works. If a user leaves the system on, disable their account
until they beg forgiveness and promise not to do it again.

Over the years I've tried various methods and have yet to find one
that meets our needs entirely. Fortunately, except for the IT
department, we seem to have users pretty well trained.

Jeff

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You can use the screen saver to lock the computer after a period of idle time. The
Winexit.scr screen saver from the resource kit will log users off after a period of
time, though you may need to modify the registry to get it to work on non
administrator accounts or there may be third party screensavers that do the same.
Another option is using the AT command to log a user off at a certain time that could
be applied via Group Policy start up script. I have done it using the shutdown -l
command and had to use the /interactive option for AT to get it to work. --- Steve

 

[Dooma]

Thanks for the information Steve. what are the format for the AT command
that you mentioned below? I am using 2k active directory.


Thanks in advance.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

You could create a batch file using Note Pad for instance to logoff a
computer every day at Eight pm for example such as " AT 20:00 /interactive
/every:m,t,w,th,f,s,su shutdown - l " . This example assumes that the
shutdown utility is already in the system32 folder of the computer which I
believe it is for W2K/XP. Otherwise you can copy it to the computers from a
network share using another logon script. You also would also want to run a
startup script " AT /delete /yes " first to clear out the previous job or
you will end up with a lot of identical AT tasks. You could use just " AT
20:00 /interactive shutdown -l " as a starup script which would clear itself
after running, but it would not be reapplied if the computer does not start
up every day. --- Steve

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