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by jpcandiff

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I need to find the location of a pc on our network. If i knew the user that is currently logged in, it would be helpful. The info that i already have is as follows:
Ip Address, Workstation name, and Mac address.
Nbtstat -A does not give me any info.It returns an Unknown Host error. I can ping the ip address. The workstation can not be located in NDS(Novell 6). I was able to get the Workstation name from its DNS entry.
I have a w2k DNS server.Any info will be greatly appreciated.

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by sacrews

One option to find who is looged on to the network is use the Unix rwho or finger command. This will help you find out who is logged onto your host. It will show "real names", terminal, idle times and login times. This will be done in DOS.

e.g finger user @host_name

( finger(login Id of User)@ host_name).

or finger user .This will find out when the last logged in.

I hope this helps you.

by jpcandiff

I am trying to locate the user name that is logged into this particular workstation. I cant use the Finger command because it requires you to designate a user name(the opposite of what im trying to accomplish). Unfortunately i am not on a unix environment. And as far as the host name goes,im in a Novell environment running edir and users can authinticate on any of the 30 Novell servers.

by oz_media

I've run into the same problem, I don't like it when people use thier names to identify the PC on the networks I maintain so they se a garbled bunch of numbers instead. Now that I've become a remote NetAdmin, I can't run to te users PC and do a quick winipcfg to get the IP.

I ran a few network digramming tools (noe built into Visio and other third party tools) They gave me a full list of computer names, which I manually add the real names and positions to (this is the long way but I have a great map of three locations now). Even if the IP changes through DHCP, the long number string will still tell me who's machine it is.

There are similar tools available that will scan and draw a network diagram of all nodes but I foget th ename of one I used to use (IQnet or something like that) A simple search on tucows or zdnet should find something that'll work.

Good luck,
OM

by jpcandiff

Is there really a tool like that built into Visio?Ive never noticed. Thanks for the advice. Ill look intot hat.

by oz_media

Actually with Visio, it's a plugin. It was made by ???? how rote it to perform network diagrams for Novell Netware servers. There's probably something for MS servers but I wouldn't know where to get it.

Novell has a tonne of decent third party software but I'm not at my usual PC, on site in Victoria, so I don't have my favs here to provide the link sorry.

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