unique IP address for each user account?

**mitaux8030** · 01-09-09, 07:46 AM

Hi all,
I want to enforce a variable (ie changes day by day) set of rules at my router. That's no problem to implement based on static IPs assigned, except on one common PC where multiple users log in... I want to have those rules apply on a per-person basis depending on what user account they log in under.

The easiest way for me to do this, if it were possible, would be to have each user assigned their own unique IP address for each Windows (XP) login account - can this be done under XP?

**autotuner** · 01-09-09, 08:34 AM

Hi mitaux8030,
In my past life we did exactly this. It was in an AD domain structure, and each user account ran "login.bat" as part of the account. These were XP machines.
We used the netsh.exe command line tool in the bat to set network parameters per user (along with a heap of other stuff).

You should be able to do the same in a non-domain environment.
So create a netsh string in a bat file and add to logon script handling.
You can use gpedit.msc to control logon/logoff scripts in XP.

Edit...Forgot to mention, gpedit.msc is not on XP home, only Prof. Just in case you can't find it. If you have Home, I believe there is a hack to get it on, but I have never tried it. There are some 3rd party tools that may do the job.

**mitaux8030** · 01-09-09, 05:32 PM

Excellent! Thanks autotuner, I'll go and take a bit of a read in that direction and see if I can't get this one to work.

01-09-09, 07:46 AM	#1 (permalink)
mitaux8030 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A rock in the ocean Posts: 194 Thanks: 8 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts Rep Power: 6	unique IP address for each user account? Hi all, I want to enforce a variable (ie changes day by day) set of rules at my router. That's no problem to implement based on static IPs assigned, except on one common PC where multiple users log in... I want to have those rules apply on a per-person basis depending on what user account they log in under. The easiest way for me to do this, if it were possible, would be to have each user assigned their own unique IP address for each Windows (XP) login account - can this be done under XP?

01-09-09, 08:34 AM	#2
autotuner Premium Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 196 Thanks: 14 Thanked 35 Times in 32 Posts Rep Power: 5	Hi mitaux8030, In my past life we did exactly this. It was in an AD domain structure, and each user account ran "login.bat" as part of the account. These were XP machines. We used the netsh.exe command line tool in the bat to set network parameters per user (along with a heap of other stuff). You should be able to do the same in a non-domain environment. So create a netsh string in a bat file and add to logon script handling. You can use gpedit.msc to control logon/logoff scripts in XP. Edit...Forgot to mention, gpedit.msc is not on XP home, only Prof. Just in case you can't find it. If you have Home, I believe there is a hack to get it on, but I have never tried it. There are some 3rd party tools that may do the job. Last edited by autotuner; 01-09-09 at 11:08 AM. Reason: Forgot to mention something.....

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01-09-09, 05:32 PM	#3
mitaux8030 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: A rock in the ocean Posts: 194 Thanks: 8 Thanked 7 Times in 6 Posts Rep Power: 6	Excellent! Thanks autotuner, I'll go and take a bit of a read in that direction and see if I can't get this one to work.