waltflanagan Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 I'm looking at a way of preventing staff/Students from logging into multiple windows machines at the same time. I've looked at RSLoginLimit which works well but doesn't log off the last used machine, only the one your trying to log into. I contacted Userlock as this seemed to tick all the boxes only to find this to be way too expensive for a school that has over 1400 machines. Any ideas would be appreciated.
fairm010 Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 If free is an option you could use the Logon Tracker part of Home Access Plus+. We use it here and its great! If you need any help setting up give me a shout. Home Access Plus+ - Home @nickbro on here is the dev for this.
fiza Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 I was looking at the exact same thing. Just got a quote from ISLock, its for a perpetual licence but still £3k is a lot of money for 500 devices!
Asgard Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 (edited) Hi we have a homegrown solution , happy to share it... Basically User logs in and a text file is written to a hidden share -and deleted on log off , 2nd logins fail with an error saying that they are already logged in and logs them off.... We are a pretty large sixth form and have about 3-5 a day of "I forgot to logoff" which my two technicians clear the login by rebooting the machine remotely or just deleting the file. Edited March 9, 2015 by Asgard
fairm010 Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 HAP gives the user an option to log off the session on the other machine meaning their login can continue.
AliG Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 We use the ancient CConnect from windows 2000 resource kit but Impero can do it too
AliG Posted March 9, 2015 Posted March 9, 2015 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237282 I can provide the mentioned CConnect if anyone can't find it.
waltflanagan Posted March 10, 2015 Author Posted March 10, 2015 Thanks all, I'll have a look at the suggested options and see what fits in with our policies.
fiza Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Limiting a user's concurrent connections in Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, and Windows NT 4.0 I can provide the mentioned CConnect if anyone can't find it. What server version are you using with CConnect?
AliG Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 DC's. From memory it just adds 1 logon to a database and takes it off at logoff, all via logon/logoff scripts. If a user tries to logon onto another computer then it will logoff the second logon and quickly display the initial computer name they are logged onto. 1
Liam Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 I use impero. Works well and it's flexibility is handy. The ability to turn it on and off quickly.
Michael Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 There was an MS utility called Limit Logon, but I don't think Microsoft offer any support and offer it 'as is'. I think it uses an Access DB from memory. Userlock's ace if you've got the cash and works via MMC.
fiza Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 I use impero. Works well and it's flexibility is handy. The ability to turn it on and off quickly. cost is the problem with Impero!
Liam Posted March 10, 2015 Posted March 10, 2015 Ah yes.. It doesn't come cheap. But what we get out of it justifies it's price.. 1
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