How to find out quickly where a user is loggon on?

[farquea]

i want a quick and easy way to find out which computer in the school a particualr user is logged onto. Is there an easy way of doing this within windows or with any free software?

[sonofsanta]

On the server that hosts the user profiles, open up Computer Management, and look at the open share sessions. That will list the profiles being accessed against the IP being used - then use nslookup at a command prompt to get the name of the computer from the IP.

[ChrisMiles]

I have some software i wrote that records user logins and log outs to a database which is then pulled into a auto-updating spreadhseet. I know of no way to find this out using built in tools.

 

Although I did just think you could possibly find out from the user sessions on your file server.

 

Edit: What ^^he^^ said

[Arthur]

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2011/06/04/use-powershell-to-find-logon-sessions.aspx

[glennda]

Implement Webmans Login tracker - really easy and just works!

[JJonas]

add something like this to your logon script

 

echo %date% %time% %computername% %username% >>\\myserver\logon$\logons.txt

[mac_shinobi]

add something like this to your logon script

 

Will that make it append the logon info to the same text file or will it keep over writing it ?

[JJonas]

Will that make it append the logon info to the same text file or will it keep over writing it ?

 

same text file. Its very handy

[MaceZ4]

We have mail groups for minitored students and it sends an email to us when a member of that group logs on and tells us the machine they log on to...

[BHMS]

DC event monitor > security

 

Use the event finder for username in the description section and at least one of the last 3 events will usually give an IP or computer name of their login.