Locked Workstation Behaviour

[Sunny4Ever]

Hi everyone,

I am after any experiences people have had with applications not running correctly when a windows 2000 workstation is locked but working fine when unlocked.

I am also after any technical information anyone may have on the effect of locking a workstation.

Thanks in advance,
-S

 

[bcastner]

When the workstation is locked it is under the control of Local System. The Local System authority does not extend to remote drive or printer shares, and has limited authority for even local hard disk resources.

. if it is a Scheduled Task, use Control Panel, Task Scheduler, and change the Run as... option for the task to a valid local user or to an artificial local Administrator user you create just for this purpose.

. See if it helps if you change the Task Scheduler service logon authentication from Local System to NT/Authority.

You do not provide enough details of the specific task that is failing to make any guesses better than the above: Assume that if you lock the workstation that you are essentially going to run under the rights and permissiions of a Default User Account, and adjust rights and permissions for the application appropriately.

 

[bcastner]

I would be remiss if, in your circumstance, I did not mention the possibility of using a Runas wrapper application.

See forum member gpalmer711 interesting application, good for win2k/xp:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=676827&SPID=779&page=1

In the alternative, you can use the ability to thread:

http://www.neovalens.com/