fingerprint scanner with multiple users

[John C.]

I just got a microsoft keyboard wtih fingerprint scanner but multiple people
use it. Is there any way to store information for multiple people or just
one person per computer/scanner.

 

[PA Bear]

One person, each using his own User Profile, same scanner.

John C. wrote:
> I just got a microsoft keyboard wtih fingerprint scanner but multiple
> people
> use it. Is there any way to store information for multiple people or just
> one person per computer/scanner.

 

[John C.]

on our network in a small animal clinic with 9 client computers with each
logged on to "Staff" profile and running our veterinary practice SQL database
software the main security is within the practice software determining which
staff member is allowed access to different areas of the database. We are
continuously in the database on each computer, different people accessing
each computer from one minute to the next as needed and at this point each
has to enter a unique password to access secured information such as medical
records. The password request routine accesses the fingerprint reader and
its software to recognise the person the fingerprint reader says is using the
keyboard but the microsoft fingerprint reading software seems to only store
recognition info on one person therefore limiting each keyboard to one person
unless like you say, we would log off of windows and log in as another user
and create another profile which would be very impractical for our use of the
computers. Is there any way to store multiple profiles for one windows' user
profile?

"PA Bear" wrote:

> One person, each using his own User Profile, same scanner.
>
> John C. wrote:
> > I just got a microsoft keyboard wtih fingerprint scanner but multiple
> > people
> > use it. Is there any way to store information for multiple people or just
> > one person per computer/scanner.
>
>

 

[Anteaus]

As for the fingerprint reader I don't know of a solution, but if you install
MyLogon you can have multiple users authenticate with individual passwords,
without having to change profile. It was developed for this kind of
data-entry terminal situation. (In fact, the prototype was hastily written
when a medical site using a proprietary client-logging database switched
from W95 to W2000, and we realised -on the day of the rollout- that the
compulsory profiling of W2000 prevented the setup from working the way it
needed to.)

v2 was not so hastily coded I'm glad to say, and it's available from:
http://mylogon.net