In Novell NetWare, there is a very useful “DISABLE LOGIN” command which is used to prevent users from logging in when you are making repairs, backing up files, or loading software. Good thing about “DISABLE LOGIN” command is users already logged in aren’t affected. However, a user who logs out can’t log in again until ENABLE LOGIN is executed.

Let’s say you have a Windows server with a lot of shared folders. You want to temporarily stop users from connecting to shared folders but you can’t disable the network connection or bring down the server. How nice if you can use the “DISABLE LOGIN” command…

Well now you can with this free tool which I am about to introduce to you! Other than having disable login command in Windows, you can also monitor network shares.

WhoIsConnected is a free tool for observing and controlling of network connections. This program works on computers with operational system Microsoft Windows 2000 and later.

Who Is Connect to server

WhoIsConnected Features:

* Monitoring of network connections and open resources.
* Disconnect any selected connection and closing any open resource.
* Monitoring Your network connections.
* Processes controlling.
* Show open IP ports (Windows XP/2003).
* Disable the newest connections to Your computer (analogue of the command “disable login” in OS Novell NetWare).

Simply click the small computer icon on the program to execute the Disable Login command in Windows. When I tried to access the computer, I get the error message “The remote server has been paused or is in process of being started.”
Novell Disable Login for Windows

WhoIsConnected is very similar to NetShareMonitor. The only difference is WhoIsConnected has DISABLE LOGIN feature and NetShareMonitor is able to notify you when a shared folder is being accessed. WhoIsConnected has an “Connection Notify” option but I can’t get it to work. When a shared folder is being access, there is no notification window… but when I try to access another computer’s shared folder from Start > Run and type double back slash followed by computer name (\\computer), the connection notify window appears.
Whoisconnected connection notify window

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