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Dear Avi,

honestly I would solve the network issue first, even if only connected to a facility "server"..a raspberry should be enough!!. This is something you can solve with very little money and would give you much more flexibility. After, use an ad hoc login software (www.pgina.org).

Best,
Nuno Moreno, PhD
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
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On 25 Feb 2014, at 21:55, Avi Jacob <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> Hi all,
> 
> I recently became the new head of our light microscopy unit, and one thing
> that jumped out at me is that we have a machine that is disconnected from
> our (buggy) scheduler/ bookkeeping program (which itself is something else
> I want to change, but hey, windmills later).
> It is not even connected to the local network, for all sorts of reasons I
> was given. (So yes, students need to copy everything to USB  disks).
> 
> Anyone can waltz in and use the microscope, with no need to log in, and I
> have no way of knowing who was last.
> I really don't want to make a new windows user account for every new
> student.
> 
> So I need a simple log-in program with admin rights that will give me at
> least a log of whom used the machine last. So I would still need to
> manually  put in each new user once, but still better than adding endless
> windows accounts.
> Anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> Avi