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by rangers fan

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I was wondering if there was a way to allow users to access a share for about a half hour at a time. I have a 10 user license for a program (shared), and users keep the program minimized the entire day which don't allow other users from using it. Every client is running win98SE connecting to an NT server. If not a way is there a program out there that would let me do that (via server or client level)?

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by lbischofs

Server Manager will help you out. The In Use button shows Idle time and you can actually disconnect users from here.

by rangers fan

Is ther a solution that will do it automatically (as in once they run the progrma they will be booted of in a half hour or an hour), and not having me physically going in and booting people off.

by shadoglare

There's nothing built into NT that will do this -
SMS does give you the ability to enforce license limits, if you wanted to try that. If 10 people have the program open, nobody else will be able to use it.
I seem to remember it also having a feature along the lines of asking a user who has had it idle to shut it down to make it available, but I don't remember for sure on that one.

by james_randy

If you are still tackling this problem, perhaps you should consider calling your local super-hero.

by schitzoid

srt up the task scheduler to delete the share then reshare it every hour, but be prepared to have a lot of corupt files!

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