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Configuration and Security
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Information on configuring and securing AB Tutor Control
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There were 13 questions found in this category:
 Version 5 - How can I restrict the functions a teacher can use and the computers a teacher can monitor?
AB Tutor Control offers all those logged on with administrative rights some very powerful features. We recommend that network administrators do not allow all users administrative access, but that they carefully control who has access to which computers and the functions that these users can acce ...
- Can AB Tutor Control monitor clients across different subnets?
Yes, AB Tutor Control can monitor clients across subnets - but it needs to be configured to allow this. There are two ways you can do this.1. Choose 'Multicast' as the main method of scanning for clients.2. Create a 'classroom group' of the clients in the remote subnet.1. Choose 'Multicast' as t ...
- Can AB Tutor Control v6 monitor clients across different subnets?
Yes, AB Tutor Control can monitor clients across subnets - but it needs to be configured to allow this. There are two ways you can do this.1. Choose 'Multicast' as the main method of scanning for clients.2. Create a 'classroom group' of the clients in the remote subnet.1. Choose 'Multicast' as t ...
- Can I use AB Tutor Control over a wireless network?
Yes, you can use AB Tutor Control over a wireless network. With high bandwidth, reliable connections the software functions as well as in 'wired' environments but with less reliable wireless connections, you may find a slight degrading of performance.There are three things you need to do to allo ...
- Can I use AB Tutor Control v6 over a wireless network?
Yes, you can use AB Tutor Control over a wireless network. With high bandwidth, reliable connections the software functions as well as in 'wired' environments but with less reliable wireless connections, you may find a slight degrading of performance.There are three things you need to do to allo ...
- I get a message 'ABClient program is currently running on this computer and you are not authorized to close it.'
For the AB Tutor Control program to scan and find remote client machines, the Client program must not be running on that machine. When you launch the AB Tutor Control Program, it detects that the Client software is running on the machine and asks you if you want to close it. For security reason ...
- I have just re-installed my clients and made sure not to set a password at installation. I definitely have no password set on my tutor. I still cannot connect.
For security reasons, if you re-install the clients and do not set a connection password at the point of installation, the installation program will detect the last password used unless you specifically deleted it during the de-install process. This 'old' connection password will again be set b ...
- I never set any connection passwords at all, so how is it possible that there should be password problems
If you have not set any connection passwords, anyone who has managed to get access to a copy of AB Tutor Control, including a student, may have connected to all your unprotected clients and changed the connection password themselves, thus preventing you from connecting to your own machines. For ...
- I'm running version 6 - what does the warning 'authentication failure - unauthorised connection' mean?
By setting the additional security flag “Prevent older AB Tutor Control programs from connecting to your remote machines” on your clients, any tutor program not running the same version or above will not be able to connect to the client machines. The clients will have the status of ...
- Version 5 - do we need to recreate a set of policies for each tutor workstation, or is there a file which can be created / copied to quickly put a base set of policies into place?
Many AB Tutor Control settings (e.g. configurations, groups, policies, etc.) are stored in the file ABControl.dat. This file can be copied into each AB Tutor Control folder, or, better still, stored on a shared network drive accessible to all Tutor Control machines. If you store ABControl.dat o ...
- Version 5 - What does the warning: Authentication failure – unauthorised connection, mean?
By setting the additional security flag “Prevent older AB Tutor Control programs from connecting to your remote machines” on your clients, any tutor program not running the same version or above will not be able to connect to the client machines. The clients will have the status of ...
- Version 6 - Creating a set of policies that can be copied to each tutor workstation
Most AB Tutor Controls settings (including policies and groups etc.) are stored in a file called ABControl.xml. Under XP this file is located in the folder in which AB Tutor Control was installed, in Vista you'll find this file in c:\program data\abconsulting\ab tutor control. After you have con ...
- What does the error message "Unable to write to C:\Program Files\ABControl\ABControl.tmp, it is read only or opened by someone else" mean?
The file 'ABControl.tmp' gets created when the AB Tutor Control program is saving changes to settings, groups, policies etc. It first creates a file called 'ABControl.tmp' and saves data to it, backs up the existing 'ABControl.dat' by renaming it 'ABControl.bak' and then copies 'ABControl.tmp' ...
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