Is there an active directory(or sms) script that will tell me the name of the computer that a user logged onto last, or is currently logged into?
thx.
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Couple of possibilites:
If you have WINS still then the username will be registered in WINS against the IP address - check a query out in the WINS admin tool.
Once you have an Ip then NBTSTAT -A ipaddress will show you the names registered on that computer at the moment which will include the username, domain name, computer name etc.
Doesn't help once users are already logged in but good for logging, I actually run a script from login script which goes away and create a directory for each day, os, user, and computer appending a text file for each -- it goes something like this and just needs a hidden share that users have write rights to. This is an Auto-It file that compiles to an EXE that can be run from a login script but not too difficult as a batch file either:
;
; AutoIt Version: 2.x
; Language: English
; Platform: Win9x/NT
; Author: Steve Knight (sk@dragon-it.co.uk)
; Date: 14-2-2002
RegRead,CompName,REG_SZ,HK
FileAppend, %A_YEAR%-%A_MON%-%A_MDAY% %A_HOUR%:%A_MIN%:%A_SEC% - %A_OSVERSION% - %COMPNAME% - %USERNAME%\n, \\\\server\\share$\\info\\
FileAppend, %A_YEAR%-%A_MON%-%A_MDAY% %A_HOUR%:%A_MIN%:%A_SEC% - %A_OSVERSION% - %COMPNAME% - %USERNAME%\n, \\\\server\\share$\\info\\
FileAppend, %A_YEAR%-%A_MON%-%A_MDAY% %A_HOUR%:%A_MIN%:%A_SEC% - %A_OSVERSION% - %COMPNAME% - %USERNAME%\n, \\\\server\\share$\\info\\
FileAppend, %A_YEAR%-%A_MON%-%A_MDAY% %A_HOUR%:%A_MIN%:%A_SEC% - %A_OSVERSION% - %COMPNAME% - %USERNAME%\n, \\\\server\\share$\\info\\
You end up with a file for each user, computer, month, and OS saying when they have logged on and from what computer and OS.
Yes you can use that tool in 2003 server as well
This is the MS KB on it:
http://support.microsoft.c
But I have found a newer tool from MS that takes CCconects place:
Look for a tool called LimitLogon. It is the new Microsoft replacement tool for cconnect to limit concurrent connections/logons.
http://download.microsoft.
Another choice:
1) The UserLock product in the link below is an option:
http://www.softwareshelf.c
Here's some more info on Limit Login: http://www.microsoft.com/t
Last two should missed a bit in the cut & paste:
FileAppend, %A_YEAR%-%A_MON%-%A_MDAY% %A_HOUR%:%A_MIN%:%A_SEC% - %A_OSVERSION% - %COMPNAME% - %USERNAME%\n, \\\\server\\share$\\info\\
FileAppend, %A_YEAR%-%A_MON%-%A_MDAY% %A_HOUR%:%A_MIN%:%A_SEC% - %A_OSVERSION% - %COMPNAME% - %USERNAME%\n, \\\\server\\share$\\info\\
Then create the text files I suggested when your users logon and you can parse that to get the last computername for that user... even just an echo %computername% > \\server\share\users\%user
Only an idea, simple but it works as long as your users can run such as login script.
Steve
Yup, that's the one I'm going with. So far i've got a vbscript that creates a file on the share named %username% with %comptername% in it. Now I can use my other scripts to read from those files.
In case any of you were wondering, I'm doing this so that I can connect to someone's computer using SMS remote tools, simply by entering the user's name. If anyone needs these scripts(when I'm done) just ask, I'll post them here.
Thank you.
Nice one, thanks for the points :-)
When you append to the file (use >> if you are using an echo redirection like above) you end up with a nice little audit history too... and you can just read the last line with your script to get the last computer ... or even get clever and offer a list of their last couple by showing the last 5 lines of the file in a dialog for the user to choose before parsing the computername out...
I've found SMS remote a bit of a pain -, at one place it would not work from the commandline with a netbios computername so I wrote scripts to resolve those to IP address and pass that. Have you tried just running remote.exe with a paramater 3 then the username... vaguely possible it might work?
Steve
Right now I've got an SMS remote tools script that asks for a computername, and then it resolves the IP, and connects using the IP. I found that script off of google, and it just works, no modification necessary. What I'm going to do is modify that script so it makes use of this username thing.
What you said got me thinking about maybe making a logoff script that removes the computer name when they logoff. That way the file would only have a list of computers that they are logged into. But that list might get messy to do to computer crashes and stuff. Maybe I could put in a time/date after the computer name, and run clean up using the login script.
I probably won't do that since most people only log into 1 computer at a time. But I doubt it would be incredibly hard to do.
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by: lazarus98Posted on 2006-01-05 at 13:35:53ID: 15623193
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