[dba-Tech] Windows group

Dear Group,

>From the tips I got here plus some searching on the Microsoft site and in
Windows help I found that the NET USER /TIMES command does, indeed, allow
the Windows 2000 and Windows XP Home/Professional administrator to set a
range of valid login times for the users of a workstation. The user cannot
login except during the valid time range.

I see that in Windows 2000 there's the NET ACCOUNTS /FORCELOGOFF command. It
sets the number of minutes that a logon-time-limited user has got before
Windows will log him off the system. I tried it on my Windows 2000 Pro w/s
after changing a user's account to limit login times...but no go. The end of
the valid login time range came and went with not a peep from Windows.

The Help says that the Net Logon service needs to be running for NET
ACCOUNTS commands to work; but when I attempted to start the service it
failed. The System log said that:

"This Windows NT computer is configured as a member of a workgroup, not as a
member of a domain. The Netlogon service does not need to run in this
configuration."

Our workstations are connected in a Novell NetWare LAN. I'm still looking
for something like Novell NetWare's time limits for logins...but for
Windows, not NetWare. Novell will disconnect the user from the network once
the valid time range has been exceeded.

Any ideas for a Windows discussion group like this one where I might get my
question answered, or do you lot have any additional insights?

Regards,

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI

"The press must learn that misguided use of a computer is no more amazing
than drunk driving of an automobile." - Ken Thompson (co-inventor of UNIX),
1984