Active Directory Users and Computers
From Active directory Users and Computers, can I find for a specific computer the user who is currently logged in that computer? and also, can I find the users that used the computer so far, from the time the computer was added in the domain?
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Actually this is what I want to do:
I have an IP address of a computer and I want to know who is currently using that IP. From AD users and computers you can create a query and find the computer which has that IP address, but you cannot find the user who owns/uses that PC (only if the hostname of the PC is something that refers to the user). I know that in AD, a computer and its user are two different objects but are computer objects and user objects related in any way that helps you to find who is the user of a specific computer?
I have an IP address of a computer and I want to know who is currently using that IP. From AD users and computers you can create a query and find the computer which has that IP address, but you cannot find the user who owns/uses that PC (only if the hostname of the PC is something that refers to the user). I know that in AD, a computer and its user are two different objects but are computer objects and user objects related in any way that helps you to find who is the user of a specific computer?
No unfortunately there is no association between a user and computer object in AD. In this case I'd go to the local logs on that PC.
Thanks
Mike
Thanks
Mike
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Hi,
The free tool Limitlogin.exe from Microsoft can be used to see user's login information and that may be what you want:
http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2005/03/14/395256.aspx
Download it here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237282
Hope this helps.
The free tool Limitlogin.exe from Microsoft can be used to see user's login information and that may be what you want:
http://blogs.msdn.com/spatdsg/archive/2005/03/14/395256.aspx
Download it here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/237282
Hope this helps.
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For the currently logged in question you can use pslogged on from MIcrosoft http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897545.aspx
As far as finding every user that has logged on from a particular computer that would take going through security logs (local or search through all the DCs). that may not be easy though as logs are overwritten (depending on your settings).
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Mike