Dan Lewis
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http://www.golod.com/2005/10/enabling-multiple-remote-desktop-sessions-in-windows-xp-professional-and-media-center-edition-2005/
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Confused Dan?
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Dan Lewis
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the above would work, i did it on a computer yesterday and i've had 5 people connected to a different terminal sessions on a xp machine.
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Dan Lewis
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i'll try to explain,
you dont want to remote desktop as this takes the screen away from the remote and brings it to you.
with the link i posted it makes an xp machine possible to have multiple connections to it with out disturbing the local machine. terminal sessions, to you then rdc it and disable the device's via device manager or a batch file.
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pow
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But I fail to see how it would help me lock out keyboards on our client machines?
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Dan Lewis
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you then rdc the client machines, but the client machines will not know any different that you are connecting.
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I see what you mean and thanks very much, but ideally I just wanted a way to lock out 17 classroom computer with a click on the main teacher computer.
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Dan Lewis
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then create a .bat with devcon in it
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or not new idea
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q311272
Device Console Help:
devcon.exe [-r] [-m:\\<machine>] <command> [<arg>...]
-r if specified will reboot machine after command is complete, if needed.
<machine> is name of target machine.
<arg>... is one or more arguments if required by command.
For help on a specific command, type: devcon.exe help <command>
[Edited on 11-12-2007 by Dan Lewis]
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Dan Lewis
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^that would be the best way imo
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Dan Lewis
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devcon \\MACHINENAME disable @usb\*
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Dan Lewis
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also can be done via remote registry
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pow
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Now THATS what im looking for.
Can I enable? Can I disable PS2 ports?
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pow
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You can disable device by hardware id
Dan, are you on MSN?
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Dan Lewis
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yea i am, guru_dan@ntlworld.com
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pow
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Cant disable mouse (no inbuilt function to disable mouse) and removing it means reboot
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Dan Lewis
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is it usb or ps/2
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Dan Lewis
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how many machines will it need to be done on?
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pow
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USB, but i'd like the keyboard to go as well (which is PS2)
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Dan Lewis
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how many pc's?
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pow
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17, but im perfectly capable of writing a batch file
Can you disable the USB port and the PS2 port then?
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Dan Lewis
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you should be able to do it all via devcon
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pow
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Gunna have a play inabit
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pow
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OK, explain to me HOW to disable the USB service?
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