[K12OSN] Shared Sessions? - SonicWall

[Mel Wade]

It was a stab at it, but I wanted to restrict that anyway...

I've got on e-mail into a lead SonicWall tech about this....  It may not do
any good...

Mel

On 11/6/06, Darryl Palmer <dpalmerjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/6/06, Mel Wade <mel at melwade.com> wrote:
> >
> > somewhere I saw a setting that prevents shared resources.  It was in a
> > K12LSTP config file, but now I can't find the file.  It's intent was to
> > prevent people from signing one twice with the same username.  Can anyone
> > tell me where that file is?
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Was this to try and solve your original problem?  Because it will not.
> The root problem is that SonicWall is trying to identify people by the
> network address and/or ethernet machine address that the connections are
> coming from.  Because all the copies of your web browser are actually being
> ran on your LTSP server, they all have are coming from the same place as far
> as SonicWall is concerened.  To solve this you can do 1 of two things.
>
> 1)  Run the web browsers locally on each thin client.  This will take up
> tons of resources, at least for Firefox, but if you have the memory to spare
> then this will fix it.
>
> 2) See if you can incorporate the Internet standard AUTH User
> Identification Service with SonicWall.  The Linux server name is identd and
> it runs on TCP port 113.  What this will do is allow someone to query the
> server and get the user ID number of the user that is attached to a TCP
> connection.
>
> Darryl
>
>
>
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