Windows Server 2008 Limit Concurrent Connections

[rbad3]

Hi, I have Windows Server 2008 and I use it for a file server on my network. I use this server to share various files. I would like to implement a method of higher control of who exactly has access to my files, using usernames and passwords.

 

I have done a fair amount of googling, and I have seen some solutions using "limitlogin" & "CConnect". Unfortunately it seems the above mentioned solutions require complex procedures using Active Directory (at least to me) or some configuring client-side. I have no access to the client computers.

 

So far I have managed to disable my guest account and create users via local users and groups. This solution seems to be simple, however I have found that more then one user can connect through a single account/username.

 

Is it possible to limit an account to one concurrent connection at a single time?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[mmthomas]

You can't get as granular as "Limit account BOB to one connection from one computer" (without access to client machines) but you can limit the total number of simultaneous users on a share. If you go into the Properties of your shared folder, go to the Sharing tab, and then click Advanced Sharing you should see in the middle "Limit the number of simultaneous users to:" and then a box where you can put in the number of users be it 1, 5 or ten thousand. But this may just result in different problems.