Re: Need advice on limiting login's by users

Nope still got a guest wireless network, and it's working fine. But some of the kids don't bring a laptop, so ask for access to a PC, and hence .... the problem.

Mike
"Cris Hanna [SBS - MVP]" <crisnospamhanna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e8dQpKAqJHA.5900@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I seem to recall in the past you had a separate network for guests..is that gone or didn't work out.

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"Mike in Nebraska" <Mike_in_Nebraska@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:F7FA013F-CB69-4E2A-84DA-A7D16D4CCB81@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Running SBS 2003 Premium. Workstations a mix of WinXP Pro SP3 and Vista
Business SP1.
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I've got what I perceive as a problem; every year during Spring and Summer
we get a bunch of undergrad and grad students in do do work for us, or
complete their theses. We have a bunk house for them to live in with
wireless access. However, some of the kids don't bring laptops so they ask
their staff sponsor to let them on one of our PC's so they can check email,
etc. We have 4 PC's in a work room for projects, temp staff, etc. and the
staff member will take them in and login with their login info and go back
to work, leaving the kid alone.

While I can't pinpoint a problem in the network due strictly to this
practice, I still am very much against it. I am firm in our staff meetings
about the security risks, but they just smile and ignore me.

I'd rather not wait for an "I told you so" moment as I'll be the one to
clean up the mess.

I did some searching and found an old tool called LimitLogin utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237282 as part of the Windows 2000 Kit.

Any comments on this or other tools? My thought is to restrict the staff to
one "active" login at a time to prevent the above practice. In other words,
they'd have to log out of a PC before they could login to another.

TIA,

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Mike Webb
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc.
a conservation non-profit (501 (c)(3)) organization
Wood River, NE

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