Finding a user on the Windows 2000 network.

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Allison

Is there a free utility that will allow me to find where or what computer a
user is logged into?
 
Hi Allison,

There has no exist utility which can do this.

Here is a workaround. You can telnet the client and run the whoami if the
client is the Windows 2000/XP.

Or, you can use the remote registry to remotely open the client computer's
registry. Check the current user information in the registry.

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Sincerely,

Steven Liu

Microsoft Online Partner Support

MCSE 2000

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Hi Allison,

You also can run the msinfo32 and click the View > Remote Computer to
access the remote computer and get the user information in the general
information page.

Thanks for using Microsoft News Group!

Sincerely,

Steven Liu

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MCSE 2000

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The reason I was asking is because we have a lot of users that we need to
remotely support, and a lot of times they don't know how to find or even
know their computer name in order for us to connect to them. We can look it
up but it is kind of a slow process. I didn't know if there was a way to do
some type of query against the Domain Controller or any other server in
order to find the computer the user is currently logged into.

Thanks
 
The reason I was asking is because we have a lot of users that we need to
remotely support, and a lot of times they don't know how to find or even
know their computer name in order for us to connect to them. We can look it
up but it is kind of a slow process. I didn't know if there was a way to do
some type of query against the Domain Controller or any other server in
order to find the computer the user is currently logged into.
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You don't need a tool.
Run something like

echo %computername%>\\server\share\%username%.txt

during logon and take a look into the user file.

To avoid such issues in the future I would recommend to place an icon
on the All Users Desktop which will popup essential user information
like Computername, IP-Configuration etc. based on WSH (for example).

Ciao, Walter
 
Allison said:
Is there a free utility that will allow me to find where or what computer a
user is logged into?
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The Win32 API allows this. Another easy way to do this is to:

-Do a "net send username sample message" to connect to the user's
machine
-Run "nbtstat -c" to check your netbios cache for the IP of the
machine you just conneced to
-Use "nbtstat -A [ip address]" to get the netbios name of the machine

Good luck.
 
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