Theldron Posted June 30, 2017 Posted June 30, 2017 Hi all, I am changing our setup, installing new software etc, ready to re-image all PCs over the summer. One thing I wanted to get working was Edulock to lock the PC when the little ....... pupils unplug the network cable, but notice that it is no longer available. Is there a alternative that anyone can recommend? Cheers
Bedders Posted June 30, 2017 Posted June 30, 2017 If you use Impero, it has a feature to lock the screen when the network cable is unplugged. Just don't do what we did and apply it to laptops by mistake...
Theldron Posted June 30, 2017 Author Posted June 30, 2017 If you use Impero, it has a feature to lock the screen when the network cable is unplugged. Just don't do what we did and apply it to laptops by mistake... Hi mate, no we are an ABTutor school, would like impero, but not happening at the moment.
LanSchoolUK_Adam Posted June 30, 2017 Posted June 30, 2017 This feature is also available in LanSchool ('Network Tampering'). Once the Ethernet cable is unplugged, the student will have a silent countdown of 5 seconds to re-attach it before the screen locks and turns bright blue, with a message stating to reconnect the cable. It stays in this state for five seconds, and then the two messages repeat/alternate on a loop. This gives them a chance to re-enable the adaptor if it was disabled in Control Panel. Not only is the screen bright blue so the Teacher can't miss it, but we have tools on our Tech Console that will monitor intentional/hard disconnects and show who the last authenticated user was at the point of cut-off.
Theldron Posted June 30, 2017 Author Posted June 30, 2017 Thanks, I am ideally looking for an open source solution, we are a small school with a very very (eye wateringly) tight budget.
Bedders Posted June 30, 2017 Posted June 30, 2017 Thanks, I am ideally looking for an open source solution, we are a small school with a very very (eye wateringly) tight budget. If you have the ability/time, it may be worth coding something that can run as a Windows Service that monitors network status (if it gets unplugged, does it have an Event ID in the event log?) and emails yourself or a designated mailbox, or just opens a popup every 10 seconds and takes focus to disrupt whatever the student is trying to do It does depend what problem you're trying to solve - if it's students unplugging the adapter to bypass monitoring, the above could help. If it's purely to annoy the next class then consider gluing them in (and using superglue dissolver to remove them), or cutting the clip on the RJ45 connector so that you need a screwdriver to release it? 1
RobD Posted June 30, 2017 Posted June 30, 2017 If you have the ability/time, it may be worth coding something that can run as a Windows Service that monitors network status (if it gets unplugged, does it have an Event ID in the event log?) and emails yourself or a designated mailbox, or just opens a popup every 10 seconds and takes focus to disrupt whatever the student is trying to do I like this, You could run a scheduled task to watch for the "network link is disconnected" event (on my laptop its event 27 in system) which in turn runs a batch script (or something else) to lock the computer: rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation or pops up a message start "" cmd /c "echo Hello world!&echo(&pause" 1
eddyc Posted June 30, 2017 Posted June 30, 2017 We have a VBS script that is called at login for students which looks for the network cable being unplugged \ WLAN being turned off and logs out the machine. Once they've done it once and lost their work, they are less inclined to do it again. We also have the script writing out to the event log explaining that they were logged out due to loss of network. Of course you have to host the script someone locally on each machine else when the network connection is lost nothing will happen! 1
Theldron Posted June 30, 2017 Author Posted June 30, 2017 If you have the ability/time, it may be worth coding something that can run as a Windows Service that monitors network status (if it gets unplugged, does it have an Event ID in the event log?) and emails yourself or a designated mailbox, or just opens a popup every 10 seconds and takes focus to disrupt whatever the student is trying to do It does depend what problem you're trying to solve - if it's students unplugging the adapter to bypass monitoring, the above could help. If it's purely to annoy the next class then consider gluing them in (and using superglue dissolver to remove them), or cutting the clip on the RJ45 connector so that you need a screwdriver to release it? Scripting/programming is not one of my strong points I have to admit. RobD - Cheers bud, I will have a look at this. eddyc - Hi mate, is this something you would be willing to share?
Theldron Posted June 30, 2017 Author Posted June 30, 2017 (edited) Hi, Event ID was 1001 in Event Viewer/Network Profile as Network disconnected. I have setup a scheduled task to run a batch file with the command "rundll32.exe user32.dll, LockWorkStation" but this is not working Edited June 30, 2017 by Theldron
Steve21 Posted July 1, 2017 Posted July 1, 2017 (edited) Edulock is still there it's just EduTechs hosting on his main site still hasn't been resolved so is hitting the page it's on. I'm out the country currently so can't really do much unless someone has a copy they can put online for you currently @EduTech Any updates? Steve Edited July 1, 2017 by Steve21
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