how to find out which workstation a users is logged on

[dayg]

Hi all,

We have W2K AD environment with XP or W2K workstations. I was wondering what is the fastest way to find out which workstation a user is logged on? i.e I want to find out where John Doe is logged on right now. How do I go about tracking it? Any help is appreciated.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

i also would like to know this.

 

[Brazen]

I too would like to know this. I think I casually looked in to it once, and came to the conclusion it isn't possible. It would be nice though. I troubleshoot a lot of remote sites, some 30-60 minutes away and some users it takes 10-20 minutes just to walk them through how to find out the computer name (and we have a policy that changes "My Computer" to "My Computer is %computername%" so it is RIGHT THERE).

 

[Czar]

dont think thats possible

but if you have symantec anti virus, the network edition, fantastic program btw, then you can see a list of computers and users logged in in its management software

 

[dayg]

Hi all,

I was told you can do this by editing the policy and look into the security event logs. I'm just not sure if I wanted to go that route.

I remember I came across this sometime ago and was able to see what workstations each users were logged in at that time. I don't remember how I got there or using what util software...but I'm pretty certain it can be done.

 

[Agamar]

We do it here using a rather lengthy VB script. Would be kind of complicated to explain all that it did though.

 

[dayg]

BUMP, Anyone knows any util that can do this?

 

[dayg]

Agamar,

Would you be able to share that with us?

 

[dayg]

Hi all,

After a long search, I finally found the tools. Click HERE

The tool is called NBTSCAN. Check it out!

 

[Czar]

sweet, I'm definetly going to check it out tomorrow at work

thanks for the find

 

[Brazen]

Yeah, big thanks. I'll check it out on Monday too. This is more useful than SP2.