[K12OSN] Rebooting WinTerms

[Micah Hale]

Chris,

I'm glad to hear that you may be working on a solution for this annoyance.
I myself have a couple of hundred terminals that perform the same cycling.
Although it is nothing more than an annoyance, a fix would be greatly appreciated here.

Thanks for looking into it.


Micah F. Hale
Network Administrator
Aransas Pass ISD
micah.hale at aransas.k12.tx.us

On Feb 27, 2004 10:56 AM, Chris Hobbs <chobbs at silvervalley.k12.ca.us> wrote:

> Chris Hobbs wrote:
> > The problem is, if these machines are left untouched (once up to the 
> > Windows logon screen), they recycle - that is, it appears that X dies 
> > and restarts, relaunching rdesktop. This occurs appx every 5 minutes.
> 
> Well, replying to myself since I was able to track down the problem - I 
> realize that the odds of anyone else having this same problem is remote, 
> but this will hopefully seed Google :)
> 
> Anyway, it turns out that the WinLogon program has a hard-set timeout of 
> 120 seconds (my estimate was way off), and effectively cancels the logon 
> screen.
> 
> There is a way around this, as MS has provided hooks for a programmer to 
> replace the Graphical Identification and Authentication dll (gina.dll), 
> which controls the response to that timeout. I'm going to look into this 
> as a solution.
> 
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