See which machine a user is logged in to 1

[JamesLean]

Is there a way (without purchasing 3rd party s/w) to see which machine(s) on the network a particular user is logged in to?

--James

 

[brontosaurus]

do you need to do this "behind the scenes?". If not, you can use the NET SEND and NBTSTAT commands...

 

[JamesLean]

Thanks. How do you use either of those to find out which machine a user is logged into?

--James

 

[brontosaurus]

assuming you know the user's logon ID, from a command prompt (don't include the quotes in any of these commands):

&quot;NET SEND <username> This is a test, please delete&quot;

then

&quot;NBTSTAT -c&quot;

this command will return the IP address of the machine the user is logged in to (amongst others). Once you have the IP, just issue:

&quot;NBTSTAT -A <IP Address>&quot;

 

[JamesLean]

OK, I see. That works great!

Now, is there any way to do it without the user knowing?

Thanks so far.

--James

 

[brontosaurus]

well, I know there's a tool called PSLOGGEDON that would do that. if you were to include it in a batch file that looped through all of your machine names I suppose it could do a full domain search.

 

[JamesLean]

OK, so it sounds like there's no easy way using simple commands like your first example.

Thanks anyway.

--James

 

[Lee168]

If you have a DHCP server, you can see them in the DHCP Administrator console.