Different XP User Accounts (1 Viewer)

[pclizard]

I have searched and I'm sure this has been asked and I'm not finding it or my searching is all wrong. I do apologize, I did try.

My wife and I really want to make sure that the kids don't see the R rated and adult movies. I'm using WHS and have the folders locked out with passwords there and I want to be able to get into Media portal and be certain that the kids can't get into these movies.

In my thinking, I thought that perhaps two seperate XP user accounts that one would need to start up at the beginning, for the MommyDaddy account, it would have a certain configuration that would let us watch everything, the kids would log in with the kids XP account and only have access to the below R rated movies, but the configuration is set for both users.

I thought about the pin option but a simple closing of media portal and start run \\servername and bang the kids are watching the R rated movies. I only recently discovered media portal so I'm really really new.

One way I thought of working around this is that if media portal is closed, it logs off the current user, is that an option or some windows trick?

I tried looking at the moving pictures plugin but again, if medial portal is closed, then start run \\servername... all over again.

Any further ideas are really welcome.

Thanks,
Rog...

Well, I was making it harder than it was. I found a batch file that runs the application, and forces a logoff when the program is closed.

Thanks,
Rog...

 

[alank]

If your kids are good enough with computers that they know how to access a server using \\servername, then they will certainly know how to do a ctl-alt-del to start up task mgr and kill your bat. And they will probably be able to get around any other block you think might work. If you really have movies that you absolutely don't want them to get their hands on, I would suggest storing them on an external drive and keep it locked away somewhere and only pull it out when you want to watch.