The WinVNC server already has an option through which the server can be
configured to log off the current user when the last connection exits.
Cheers,
James "Wez" Weatherall
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Graham Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vnc-List@Uk. Research. Att. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 8:09 PM
Subject: Logging off NT
> Hi, all
>
> I have a question for the developers. It's very iffy, but here goes...
> I have given my dad vnc viewer and the vnc session password, and taught
him
> how to log into our home NT 5 server. He needs to do this so that he can
> dial out to the internet when I am away/sleeping/whatever. However, try as
I
> might, I can not get him to understand this concept of vnc being only a
> window into the box, and that he needs to log off the machine himself when
> he is finished. There is not a day goes by that I don't have a whine at
him
> for leaving the server logged on, and he says something like "But I shut
> down my machine!", "But I closed the vnc viewer window!" and the like.
> Do you think it would be practical to write into the Win32 version of the
> server that (optionally, administrator-configurable) when the viewer
session
> is terminated, it logs off the machine? And if so, would anybody be able
to
> implement this?
>
> Cheers
> Graham
> ... Eww, that's so icky and slashdotty and... linuxy.
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