Modify PIF to stop double running of ARev? (AREV Specific)
At 17 FEB 1998 12:22:44PM Jim Dierking wrote:
We have been running into problems with employees opening several
copies of AREV in Win95. Seems to breed a lot of problems, not
to mention being very slow. Anyway, is there a way to make the
PIF limited to opening the .exe once? TIA, Jim
At 17 FEB 1998 02:54PM RLYNCH wrote:
I have heard of people writing Visual Basic program that get executed when the PIF is launched. Basiallt it can check for another instance of AREV running and stop loading aREV if it finds another copy of it runnung on the same desktop.
At 17 FEB 1998 06:59PM Andrew P McAuley wrote:
Have a login script which writes a file to the local hard disk. If the file already exists refuse login and delete at logout…
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At 18 FEB 1998 06:47PM Rob Hug wrote:
I wrote a program that keeps track of the network address (off the ethernet card) in a 'Log' file. The program is very simple, it runs each time someone logs in, gets their network address and writes it to a log file. If the address is already in the log file, a warning is displayed. When the user logs off, the address is removed from the log.
If the address is already in the log file when a user logs in, it means either they did not exit the account correctly (Powered off) or they have entered more than once with the same computer. A warning is displayed either way. If you wanted to be rude to your users, you could add a TCL 'OFF' command whenever the warning is displayed.
Another great advantage of this program is that you could create a voc item that lists the ID's in the log allowing users to see who else is on, and/or display the number of users on the database upon login and logout.