[Samba] do not allow users to login twice

[Nigel W]

This is a general windows problem and is not specific to Samba.

>From my quick searching, it seems that it is a problem that Microsoft
themselves provides no solution. There does seem to be several third party
solutions that provide this functionality but since I have never used any
of them I am not going to recommend anything.

On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 1:23 PM, oeh univie edv lists <
edv-lists at oeh.univie.ac.at> wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't explain my problem well enough...
>
> The problem is not that a domain user logs in on one specific computer
> several times. I tried that. It's not even possible. You only login to the
> same profile on the same computer again. So this is ok.
>
> The problem is that a domain user is logged in on two computers
> simultaneously. I tried that. That's possible. But I don't want that
> because my users don't think about/understand what happens when they log
> out (sync profiles back to server). So that could mean possible data loss.
> How do you deal with that situation? It must be a very common problem...
>
> work stations are win 7. Is there a GPO for that or something else?
>
> kind regards,
> birgit
>
>
> MORILLO Jordi <J.Morillo at educationetformation.fr> schreibt:
> >Hello,
> >
> >Not a real solution but you can do that by GPO:
> >- don't allow/display "change user" when connected
> >- don't allow/display "lock session"
> >
> >So the only things you can do is logon, logoff, reboot or shutdown....
> >
> >________________________________________
> >De : samba [samba-bounces at lists.samba.org] de la part de oeh univie edv
> >lists [edv-lists at oeh.univie.ac.at]
> >Date d'envoi : vendredi 9 octobre 2015 02:08
> >À : samba at lists.samba.org
> >Objet : [Samba] do not allow users to login twice
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >I plan to have roaming profiles and I do not want users to login twice
> >with the same account on different work stations because then I guess
> >there could be problems of synchronising back to the server and possible
> >loss of data...
> >
> >What would be the best way to allow one user to login just on one computer
> >and not on more computers simultaneously? (They should be able to login
> >everywhere so I do not want to restrict users to certain host
> >names/netbios names)
> >
> >kind regards, birgit
> >
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