User Security

I think following steps only work on win 2000

To accomplish the subject task:
1. Right-click My Computer and press Manage.

2. On the Action menu, press Connect to another computer.

3. Double-click the computer you wish to connect to or type the computer name in to the Name box and press OK.

4. Right-click Computer Management () and press Properties.

5. On the Advanced tab, press the Startup and Recovery button.

6. On the Startup and Recovery dialog, press the Shut Down button.

7. Select between:

Log off Current User
Shut down
Restart
Power down (if supported)

and press OK.

for WIN NT you can use "shutdown" command, type c:\shutdown /? at dos Pompt for more info.

Server Manager:

Depending on the "network resource", you can disconnect the user by looking at the machines that the resources are housed. Then disconnect the user if an open session exists for that user.
Go to SrvMgr.
Select the machine a/the resource is on.
Go to the users button.
Search for the target account.
Disconnect the account if it is listed.

Server Manager:

Depending on the "network resource", you can disconnect the user by looking at the machines that the resources are housed. Then disconnect the user if an open session exists for that user.
Go to SrvMgr.
Select the machine a/the resource is on.
Go to the users button.
Search for the target account.
Disconnect the account if it is listed.

Open up server manager on the server you want to see if that user is connected to it.
Click on sessions/users and select the user and click Dissconnect.
To open Server Manager: In WINNT 4.0/2000 goto start run srvmgr click ok. In windows 2000 only: Right click on my computer click manage > System Tools > Shared Folders > Sessions.

You could simply specify logon hours to the users you disable - ensure that they cannot logon at anytime of the day and make sure that the servers are specified to forcibly disconnect anyone whose hours have expired.

Obvously there will be a slight lag before the user is logged off, but that lag will probably be shorter that checking every open connection to every available server, just to check whether that user is currently connected.

I gave the following answer:
Open up server manager on the server you want to see if that user is connected to it.
Click on sessions/users and select the user and click Dissconnect.
To open Server Manager: In WINNT 4.0/2000 goto start run srvmgr click ok. In windows 2000 only: Right click on my computer click manage > System Tools > Shared Folders > Sessions.

You replied:

From JGordon500@aol.com on 12/27/01 10:54 AM EST: This is what I was trying to avoid. In our environment thereare too many server that a user could be attached to that this process becomes unwieldy. Thanks anyway
To do this on more than one server at once you can use a windows2000 machine and create your own MMC console that includes all server.
To do that:
1. Strat > Run, type in mmc and press enter.
2. click on Console > Add remove snapin
3. click add
4. Add either the Computer Management snap in or the shared folders snap in. Shared folders is the one you realy need to get the job done. However you can do much more with Computer Management.
5. Click on another computer and select your computer (if you chose the shared folders snapin you have an option of just viewing the open files or all 3).
6. Repeat step 3-5 for all servers.
7. Click on options to change it to user mode.
8. Click on save and save it wherever you want.
Now you have one interface to check all the servers.