who is logged in?

[Bill W]

I would like to know if someone is logged onto my computer to access shared
folders. Is there some way to determine who is actively logged on?

 

[Andrew McLaren]

I would like to know if someone is logged onto my computer to access shared
folders. Is there some way to determine who is actively logged on?

The quickest and easiest way is to open a Command Prompt as Administrator
and run the command:

C:\>net session

This will display all current sessions, including user name and remote
computer. Do:

C:\net session \\somecomputer /delete

to disconnect the user from \\somecomputer.

You can see the same info via the GUI, by going to Administrative Tools,
Computer Management, Shared Folders, Sessions and Open Files. If you do this
on a regular basis, you can reach the info quicker by creating a new
shortcut for the File Sharing snap-in, %SystemDir%\System32\fsmgmt.msc

I suspect there are a few other places where the session info is displayed,
as well.

 

[Bill W]

Andrew,

Thank you very much. That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again.

Bill

 

[Andrew McLaren]

That's exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again.

Excellent! Thanks for letting me know it helped, that's appreciated.

Cheers,

 

[Lang]

I know it's been a while since the last poster but.. question?

Is there any way I can see who was logged and who opened what files
from my shared ones?

I just noticed my Users folder was shared for few days with all my
personal documents.. and it's kinda frustrating, I've been such an
idiot!

Any logs? Any ideas?

Thank you!

I don't believe there's any functionality in Vista to track who has been
logged on in the past. I know that, at where I work, we have a utility
that runs when a user logs on and punches the registry with acct name
and last logged on data. So it's doable, but not native to Windows.

As to your files, display and sort on the date accessed column and see
if there are any suspicious dates, i.e., dates for which you know YOU
did not access the files.

Lang

 

[Bob D.]

You can look in the Event Viewer if you were set up for it. You can see
logon's & Logoff using the Security log. Just type in 'Event Viewer' in the
search box from the start menu.