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password protecting the screensaver
I'm desperately trying to have my screensavers lock when the user profile is
locked down. I've tried GPO's it envokes the screensaver but it doesn't lock the screen. I've tried to modify the system.adm file but when I do that there's no option to password protect the screensaver. Is there anyway I can accomplish this????? I have server 2003 standard sp2 and my XP machine is service pack 3 |
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password protecting the screensaver
1xnyer wrote:
I'm desperately trying to have my screensavers lock when the user profile is locked down. I've tried GPO's it envokes the screensaver but it doesn't lock the screen. I've tried to modify the system.adm file but when I do that there's no option to password protect the screensaver. Is there anyway I can accomplish this????? I have server 2003 standard sp2 and my XP machine is service pack 3 What do you mean by "when the user profile is locked down" ? GPOs for password-protected screensavers are easy. What did you actually select? Are you using gpmc? Do so if you aren't - much much easier to manage your policies. I'm setting up my reply to crosspost to microsoft.public.windows.group_policy as that's the most relevant group. |
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password protecting the screensaver
1xnyer wrote:
I'm desperately trying to have my screensavers lock when the user profile is locked down. I've tried GPO's it envokes the screensaver but it doesn't lock the screen. I've tried to modify the system.adm file but when I do that there's no option to password protect the screensaver. Is there anyway I can accomplish this????? I have server 2003 standard sp2 and my XP machine is service pack 3 You did set it to lock the screen after the screensaver has displayed for a given number of seconds - right? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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password protecting the screensaver
Yes but its not locking the screensaver.
"Shenan Stanley" wrote: 1xnyer wrote: I'm desperately trying to have my screensavers lock when the user profile is locked down. I've tried GPO's it envokes the screensaver but it doesn't lock the screen. I've tried to modify the system.adm file but when I do that there's no option to password protect the screensaver. Is there anyway I can accomplish this????? I have server 2003 standard sp2 and my XP machine is service pack 3 You did set it to lock the screen after the screensaver has displayed for a given number of seconds - right? -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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password protecting the screensaver
Ive created a policy to lock down the desktop so the user can not make any
changes. That works fine. I've created a 2nd policy to have the screensaver go on after 10 minutes and lock. The screensaver goes on after 10 minutes but it does not lock. I have the box check to password protect the screensaver in Group Policy but it's not working. "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]" wrote: 1xnyer wrote: I'm desperately trying to have my screensavers lock when the user profile is locked down. I've tried GPO's it envokes the screensaver but it doesn't lock the screen. I've tried to modify the system.adm file but when I do that there's no option to password protect the screensaver. Is there anyway I can accomplish this????? I have server 2003 standard sp2 and my XP machine is service pack 3 What do you mean by "when the user profile is locked down" ? GPOs for password-protected screensavers are easy. What did you actually select? Are you using gpmc? Do so if you aren't - much much easier to manage your policies. I'm setting up my reply to crosspost to microsoft.public.windows.group_policy as that's the most relevant group. |
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password protecting the screensaver
You need to enable both the screen saver timeout and enable password protect
screen server settings. The GPO that you have configured these settings in must apply to the users that you want to control in that the GPO has permissions to apply to the user/group and the user must be in the path of influence of the GPO. If not working as expected run rsop.msc while logged as a domain user that it should apply to in order to see the GPO settings that are actually being applied to that user by which GPO and if they are what you expect. Gpresult is a command line tool you can use to see what GPO's are being applied to a user/computer under "applied Group Policy Objects". The application log should also be checked on any computer where you are troubleshooting Group Policy application for pertinent errors such as userenv. Steve "1xnyer" wrote in message ... I'm desperately trying to have my screensavers lock when the user profile is locked down. I've tried GPO's it envokes the screensaver but it doesn't lock the screen. I've tried to modify the system.adm file but when I do that there's no option to password protect the screensaver. Is there anyway I can accomplish this????? I have server 2003 standard sp2 and my XP machine is service pack 3 |
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