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by wayne r.

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Anybody know of a util or command that will allow me to view users currently logged into the domain. I need to do this on a Win95 machine and I don't want to assign any admin priveliges to the user who will run this.
Something similar to the USERLIST command for NetWare is ideally what I'm after.

Cheers,
Wayne

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by green lantern

NT does not do this. Netware started with centralized authentication, NT started with de-centralized. Since more than one Domain Controller can authenticate a user logon, you must check multiple DC's to know who is logged on to your domain.
You will need a third party tool to do this and probably require admin privileges.
Ther is a tool in the NT Reskit called NETWATCH but I belive this requires admin privilges. You could setup a batch file to launch NETWATCH using the SU utility (also in the NT Reskit) to setup the contect for running the batch file. This might suffice for your needs.

ralph

by wayne r.

NETWATCH would be too risky, it does need admin priveliges and even doing this via a batch file would allow the user to stop sharing drives and delete connections etc. They probably wouldn't do it but I won't be chancing it.

Thanks anyway.

by isys

Something that might work for you is 3Com's Network Supervisor. It will show you a graphical display of all TCP/IP devices that exist on your network at a certain point in time. If the assumption is correct that when the computer is turned on it is logged on, this might do the trick.

by wayne r.

We have a number of shared terminals, this wouldn't provide me with enough info.

Thanks anyway.

by nitemare

NT can do it through the Server Applet in the Control Panel, or the Server Manager Applet if you are on a PDC/BDC.

I believe the command 'net user /domain:domainname' will provide the list you are looking for.

Regards,

by wayne r.

You need admin priveliges to access any machines on Server Manager, I want a domain user to be able to do this.

The command you specified (without :domainname), lists all accounts, I only want to be able to see the currently logged on accounts.
Thanks anyway.

by mackem

Hi Wayne
If you can set a telnet session with your server, you could then use the nbtstat -s command. This would enable you to see a list of users.
Alternatively you could run a .bat file on you server and have it print a list on a printer local to you. This would remove the risk of a user disrupting your network.
Best of luck
JV

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