Restrict workstation use

Hi There,

We are a school and have about 250 computers in the hallways. When the 
students (12 till 18 years) have a break, the hallway looks like a 
gamehall. We are looking for a sollution to block and/or shutdown the 
computers in the breaks. I can retrict the students to login at those 
times but the minimum time to restrict is 30 minutes. The breaks are from 
10:00 to 10 :20   and  12:00 to 12:20 and 14:00 to 14:20. On thursday the 
schedule is different and friday afternoon there is no break.

Does anyone has a idea to do this?

Network is Netware 6.5 SP6 and all workstations are Windows XP SP2.

Thanks,

Marcel de Jager

Marcel de Jager wrote:
> 
> Hi There,
> 
> We are a school and have about 250 computers in the hallways. When the
> students (12 till 18 years) have a break, the hallway looks like a
> gamehall. We are looking for a sollution to block and/or shutdown the
> computers in the breaks.

I know students are pain sometimes, but what are the hallway computers
for? ..if not for students use during breaks?

but.. login restrictions wont help you here.. you could use a scheduled
shutdown to power off the machines when the break begins, but they can
just restart the machines.

Or maybe you could just restrict the things they can do with the
machines?
We use progkill.exe to deny use of messenger, P2P software and such.

What about a writing a program and running it in local machine run key or as a
service that looks at time and shuts down during these times - including after a
restart?  Maybe use your login script to start up the program so that in case
they catch on, it can't be stopped without rights.

Tim

How about pushing out scheduled tasks, that copy logoff.exe to 
"C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersStart MenuProgramsStartup" during
the 
times you don't want them to login? As soon as the machine starts to log 
in it will log back out.

Push out a second scheduled task that moves logoff.exe elsewhere after the 
break period is over.

Does that sound like it makes sense?