net username broadcast

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We have a small network, and would like to know who is
logged onto the remote (unseen) machines when those
machines are in use.

What do we need to do to an XP machine to have it
reliably broadcast the username of the user that logged
on?
 
Hi -

There isn't an easy way to do this with Windows XP that I
know of. Someone else might have an idea but there are
three alternatives I can think of, though -

First would be to use Remote Assistance to connect to the
remote machine and view the shares, sessions and open
files on the remote machine's Computer Management console.

Second, you can set group policies to add logon/logoff
and use of user rights to the remote machine's security
log.

Another idea would be to create a batch file to call the
NET FILES command and schedule it to run periodically,
redirecting the output to a text file. This would
probably be the most cumbersome of the three. The batch
file would look something like this -

net files >> c:\filelog.txt

and then use Task Scheduler to run the batch
occasionally. This won't give you date and time but it
will give you username, filename they're accessing and a
couple of other things.

Someone else might have a couple of other ideas, but the
Remote Assistance thing sounds best to me.

hth -
 
We have a small network, and would like to know who is
logged onto the remote (unseen) machines when those
machines are in use.

What do we need to do to an XP machine to have it
reliably broadcast the username of the user that logged
on?
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Use nbtstat...
-a to target a machine name;
-A to target an IP address...

Here's me doing an NBTSTAT on the kid's PC, name 'KIDS':


C:\Documents and Settings\Ron.HOMENET>nbtstat -a kids

Local Area Connection:
Node IpAddress: [81.187.191.66] Scope Id: []

NetBIOS Remote Machine Name Table

Name Type Status
---------------------------------------------
KIDS <00> UNIQUE Registered
HOMENET <00> GROUP Registered
KIDS <03> UNIQUE Registered
KIDS <20> UNIQUE Registered
HOMENET <1E> GROUP Registered
BOYS <03> UNIQUE Registered

MAC Address = 00-04-E2-18-36-4B


The PC Name is KIDS.
The Domain ( or Workgroup ) is HOMENET.
The logged-on username is 'BOYS'.
 
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