View a User's Temporary Internet Files??

[ryhackl]

Greetings!

As a school administrator, I'd like to use my Windows 2000 Server to check user information (strictly for monitoring purposes). My users have profiles saved on the Windows 2000 Server (as they access from NT4 workstations). As a result, I can access their Temporary Internet Files, but as Microsoft KBA Q182592 says, I need to be logged on as that user to check these files.

Is there a way (other than purchasing another program) to check these Temporary Internet Files as an Administrator at the Server (without logging on as the user)?

Thanks again for any information provided...

- Ryan

 

[CoolClark]

Change the permissions on their profile folder to include you or admins. You'll have to take ownership of the folder to do this.

 

[Guest_imported]

The folder you are utilising - "Temporary Internet Folder" - is a special Windows folder - as such it will redirect to your own folder contents if browsed from the GUI (or Windows Explorer, if that terms means more to you).

You can see the contents if you are willing to use the command prompt to browse to these files.

So, to observe the contents of a user who has his/her profile located within the server profile folder ("UserProfiles&quot you would do something like the following:

CLICK 'START', THEN 'RUN'.

TYPE 'cmd', and press ENTER.

CHANGE TO THE DRIVE HOLDING THE USERS' PROFILE.
USE 'cd' TO CHANGE TO THE USERS 'Temporary Internet Files' FOLDER, THEN INTO THE 'content.ie5' folder.

A SIMPLE 'dir /a' WILL SHOW ALL OF THE FOLDERS, AND YOU CAN USE 'cd' TO MOVE INTO EACH ONE.

USE 'start .' TO OPEN A WINDOWS EXPLORER WINDOW FOR EACH FOLDER.

Joe.

 

[dkediger]

For a GUI interface, try Spider at:

http://www.fsm.nl/ward/

It looks a little rough, but its easy to figure out and will get into those protected system files.

 

[ryhackl]

Good day, and thanks for the tips!

3rdLineTech (Joe) - The command-line interface does reveal the files as they appear for the user, but when I perform the "start ." command, the folder that appears (in the gui interface) is the default Windows Server folder for Temporary Internet Files.

Is there an additional command I'm not familiar with which will reveal the user's Temporary Internet Files in Windows Explorer?

Thanks again,

- Ryan