[WEB4LIB] Automatic Logout Without Rebooting

[Donna Schumann]

Hagen, thank you! And I'm sorry that I didn't look more carefully at the
Resource Kit. (I did look, but obviously not carefully enough.) That's
exactly what I need! Donna 

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Donna Schumann                  Application System Specialist 
Timberland Regional Library     360-704-4542 FAX: 360-586-6838 
Olympia, Washington             schumann at timberland.lib.wa.us 

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Hagen Amen wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Donna Schumann wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I am looking for a way to automatically log out our public access NT
> > Workstations. For some of the workstations, I would like to do this on a
> > schedule fixed schedule (e.g., on the hour and half hour). On others, I
> > would like it to happen after a period of time (e.g., 20 minutes after
> > logging in). (I'm looking for an alternative to Pharos.)
> 
> The NT Resource Kit (I'm using Server Kit, rev. 2) contains the
> following:
> 
> C:\NTRESKIT>logoff /?
> 
> Command-line logoff utility version 1.00.
> Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997.  All rights reserved.
> 
> LOGOFF [/F] [/N]
> 
> 
>   Logoff, by default(using no switches), will ask for user confirmation
>   and prompt to save unsaved data.
> 
>   /F,/f  Forces running processes to close, but will ask for user
> 	 confirmation.
>          The user will NOT be asked to save unsaved data.
>   /N,/n  User will be logged-off without confirmation, however the user
>          will be prompted to save unsaved data.
> 
> That should work just fine. Just schedule it to run or use the SOON
> command to remotely issue the command.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Hagen Amen          Network Analyst
> Multnomah County Library   (x28426)
> 
>