An Idea: Logout from server.

[Lorenzo Capanna (SysAdmin)]

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, James [Wez] Weatherall wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Lorenzo Capanna (SysAdmin) wrote:
> 
> > We are trying to use VNC in this manner:
> > 
> > The user in a client machine connect a NT server (or workstation) at the
> > logon banner, then login into the server with username and password.
> > The user finally logout and then disconnect from VNC.
> > 
> > This seem to work except for one case: 
> > if the user disconnect from VNC before logout from the
> > server the next user connect the VNC server with in the 
> > last logged in desktop.
> > 
> > It would be useful that the VNC server force the logout of
> > the current user when a vnc client disconnect from it.   
> 
> Oddly enough, this feature is already present in WinVNC (3.3.2 R2).  It
> isn't documented, because after some testing it didn't seem very useful.
> 
> If you edit the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/ORL/VNC/LockSetting value in
> the registry (it needs to be a DWORD) and set it to 2, then you will get
> the desired effect.  The settings are supposed to be:
> 
> 	0 - normal behaviour
> 	1 - LockWorkstation on disconnect
> 	2 - LogOff on disconnect
> 
> Sadly, the LockWorkstation function isn't yet present in NT, so only
> settings 0 and 2 exist.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> James "Wez" Weatherall


Thanks a lot it works fine..

Lorenzo Capanna


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