Users and NT 4.0

Original Message

Name: warings
Date: May 4, 2004 at 06:16:18 Pacific
Subject: Users and NT 4.0
OS: NT 4.0 SP6a
CPU/Ram: 1024

Comment:

I have a computer lab that is made up of windows XP machines, and everyone that uses that lab has there own domain account, NT 4 domain, is there away that i can dis-allow another user, such as a generic student account, to log into those machines?

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Response Number 1

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 4, 2004 at 06:22:59 Pacific
Subject: Users and NT 4.0

Reply: (edit)

Unless the user has a valid Domain or Local User account, he/she won't be able to logon to the machine. Make sure and Disable the Guest account.

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Response Number 2

Name: warings
Date: May 4, 2004 at 06:31:48 Pacific
Subject: Users and NT 4.0

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yes the guest account is disabled, but they are using a generic account that we use for all the student computers in the classrooms, and i do not want them to be able to use that account in this one lab.

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Response Number 3

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 4, 2004 at 08:59:10 Pacific
Subject: Users and NT 4.0

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Okay. Assuming this generic account is a Domain account, change login permissions so that particular account can't login.
If it's a local account, disable it.

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Response Number 4

Name: warings
Date: May 4, 2004 at 11:24:30 Pacific
Subject: Users and NT 4.0

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I can't do that, I need that account to be active for others to use. that�s part of my problem. And yes they are all domain accounts.
What I need is away to tell the generic user that if it tries to logon to a computer it shouldn't be logging in to then tell it somehow it would fail

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Response Number 5

Name: fritz
Date: May 4, 2004 at 14:30:19 Pacific
Subject: Users and NT 4.0

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The only way you can control who logs into where is for everyone to have their own username and password or at least group-wide passwords.

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Response Number 6

Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 4, 2004 at 15:04:26 Pacific
Subject: Users and NT 4.0

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I don't see the problem. You have a generic Domain User Account. (Not a good idea, but that's beside the point). You want the users to login using this account in certain labs, but not in one particular Lab. Is that correct?
If so, do as I suggested. On the machines that you DON'T want the generic account to have access, deny login capabilities.
UNLESS I have this wrong, and you're talking about one specific person who knows this generic login, and you want everyone else to be able to use it and not this particular user...

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Response Number 7

Name: PCFella
Date: May 5, 2004 at 00:05:54 Pacific
Subject: Users and NT 4.0

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Can you not add the names of the pc's in the valid lab to the 'computers allowed to log in' in the User Manager on the NT Server.
The other way would be to move the IP range of this lab out of the usual range and 'hide' from the other parts of the LAN, you may need to set a router if that lab want's to access areas outside the local lan, but NT can manage that too.

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