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Mac Os X Server
Mac OS X Server has the idle disconnect setting in the Server Admin module, but I wanted to see how it worked beneath the shiny GUI, so I used pwharff's tip about where to look at the settings in NetInfo Manager and see how they changed.
What I discovered will also help Mac OS X users who do not have the server version. Under Server Admin, you would click on the File & Print tab, then click on Apple, Configure Apple File Service.... From there you will get another dialog box. Click on the Idle Users tab. You will see the following: [ ] Disconnect idle users after [10] minutes These correspond to "GuestUsrDisconnect_ON, RegtdUsrDisconnect_ON, AdminUsrDisconnect_ON, OpenFileDisconnect_ON" in NetInfo Manager. One strange thing was that, even though "[ ] Disconnect idle users..." was not checked, these flags showed up in NetInfo Manager as "ON." (Does this explain why users on my network are still getting disconnected occasionally?) My solution was to check "[x] Disconnect idle users...", which allowed me to then then check all of the following exceptions: Except: [x] Guests I then clicked save and looked at the NetInfo Manager. Instead of changing the flags to "GuestUsrDisconnect_OFF," etc., it instead simply deleted those entries from the "idle_disconnect_flag" property (in other words, there was no value at all). Lastly, I unchecked "[ ] Disconnect idle users...", clicked the Save button in Server Admin and looked at NetInfo Manager. There was no change to these values, but I discovered something else... I discovered that a property beneath "idle_disconnect_flag" called "idle_disconnect_OnOff" changes when "[ ] Disconnect idle users after [10] minutes" is checked or unchecked. A value of zero, "0", for "idle_disconnect_flag" will (I presume) prevent idle users from being disconnected, while a value of one, "1", activates idle disconnects (with the exceptions listed under the "idle_disconnect_flag" property values). The time until disconnection (here shown as "... [10] minutes" - the default) is controlled by the "idle_disconnect_time" property. Change its value to the number of minutes the server should wait before disconnecting idle users. These properties exist in Mac OS X Server and Consumer versions alike. I hope that all of this info is helpful to everyone.
Mac Os X Server
Can we disconnect a idle user on MAC OS X machine. I don't have MAC OS X server. Is it possible to provide idle time. |
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