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Mac users won't logout when set to idle

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by steve98 1 view

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I'm trying to get Macintosh users that are connecting to our Windows 2000 server to automatically logout after idle for 60 min. Even when idle time is set for their accounts, idle time will not appear for mac clients in Computer Management, but willappear for Windows clients. There has to be a way to set this up within Windows 2000, or via a 3rd party software package.

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by timwalsh

I may be reading between the lines too much, but I think you may be operating under a couple of false assumptions here.
First: Idle time in the Sessions window in the Computer Management tool. Users will only show up in this window if they are connected to a resource (printer/shared drive) on that server, not if they are just logged in.

by timwalsh

Second: Idle Time as applied to a given User Account. The Sessions tab in the Account Properties window only applies to users connecting through Terminal Services. The only time limits you can put on users is through the Account tab under Logon Hours. This setting determines during which time periods a given user can logon.

by timwalsh

You may be able to do what you want to do using some piece of Macintosh client software installed on each Macintosh computer, but you can't do it through Windows.

by steve98

tim.walsh@cos.sparta.com has been sadly misinformed. All users including administrator show up in Computer Management after logging into the server without accessing printers/shared drives.

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