How to know which user is login?

[Firas AL-Saidi]

Hi All,

Is there anyway to know which user is currently login to
Windows 2000 Domain? In case there is no way by Microsoft
itself, is there any third party software can do it?

Regards,

Firas

 

[Herb Martin]

Hi All,

Is there anyway to know which user is currently login to
Windows 2000 Domain? In case there is no way by Microsoft
itself, is there any third party software can do it?

Almost anything is 'possible' but this just isn't practical.

You could log all Account Login activity and filter/compare the Logins
to the Logouts but this won't give you people who just unplug their
machine (and then logout) or who are logged in with cached credentials
or a variety of other pesky problems.

You could get a rough idea by processing the above security log entries.

Why does it matter?

If a customer (with real money) asked me to do it, I would consider adding
a VERY small service on each machine to figure out who was logged on
their locally and periodically report it to a central server if that user
were
a domain user.

It wouldn't be hard to write but you someone who is comfortable writing
a service (not a big deal but much easy to mess up the machine than you
can usually accomplish with a "bad application".)

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

A bit of command-line scripting could achieve this for a single domain.

If you use "net view /domain:mydomain" to produce a list of machine accounts
in the domain, you could use the "FOR" command to work through the file and
run psloggedon (part of PSTools from www.sysinternals.com) to show who's
logged in at that machine.

I don't have a domain readily available here, but drop a reply *to this
thread* if you have difficulty working out how to do it and I'll give it a
go. Either that, or ask in the cmdprompt.admin newsgroup.

Hope this helps

Oli

 

[Ulf B. Simon-Weidner]

Hi All,

Is there anyway to know which user is currently login to
Windows 2000 Domain? In case there is no way by Microsoft
itself, is there any third party software can do it?

Regards,

Firas

Hi Firas,

another solution: if you are using homedrives and they are on a small number of
server you'd be able to check the open files on the shares of the server where
the homefolders resist. Computer management -> shared folders -> shares

Gruesse - Sincerely,

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner